Simone Leigh - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the Artist
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Simone Leigh

    American • 1967

    Born in Chicago and currently working in Brooklyn, New York, Simone Leigh is celebrated for her ground-breaking sculptural practice. Having studied ceramic traditions of West Africa and Native America, Leigh transforms ordinary materials into unflinching sculptures and shapes a conceptual arena for identity politics—exploring the complexity of blackness and visual representation of black bodies. She endows everyday signs with metaphors for black female subjectivity that simultaneously challenge stereotypes associated with African art.

    The artist first rose to prominence in 2016, on the occasion of her solo exhibition at the New Museum, New York, immediately followed by her show at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Cementing her rapid ascent to the contemporary canon, Leigh’s inclusion in the Whitney Biennial, her solo show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and the inaugural ‘Plinth’ project on the New York High Line, launched in June 2019, have collectively stunned critics and public.

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Quonset

bronze and platinum leaf
8 x 13 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (20.3 x 34.3 x 21 cm)
Executed in 2020, this work is number 7 from the edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proofs and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Another example from the edition is held in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 16 November 2022