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  • Provenance

    Feature Inc., New York
    Private Collection
    Phillips, New York, May 18, 2007, lot 265
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Vanitas Personae: An Exploration of the Self and Other Related Characters, March 4–April 1, 2000 (another example exhibited)
    Milan, Fondazione Prada, Tom Friedman, October 24–December 15, 2002, inside cover, p. 14 (another example exhibited and illustrated)

  • Literature

    Tom Friedman, exh. cat., Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, 2000, p. 37 (another example illustrated)
    Bruce Hainley, Dennis Cooper and Adrian Searle, Tom Friedman, London, 2001, p. 48 (another example illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Tom Friedman

    American • 1965

    Tom Friedman is a multimedia artist working mainly in sculpture and works-on-paper. Interested in looking at the thin line between fantasy and autobiography, Friedman often creates works that push viewers into a complicit state of witnessing. His sculptures are composed of a multitude of objects, and he assembles them in such a way as to transform the mundane into an intricate work of art. He combines materials such as Styrofoam, foil, paper, clay, wire, hair and fuzz through a labor-intensive practice that seeks to tell a story, whether about himself or the world at large.

    Friedman's approach to autobiography is not memoiristic. Rather, he takes the smallest moments of his life, like a piece of paper found on the street, and blows it out of proportion.

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Property from a Distinguished Collection

210

Yawn

signed, numbered and dated "Friedman 94 A.P. edition of 3" on the reverse
gelatin silver print
15 7/8 x 12 1/4 in. (40.3 x 31.1 cm)
Executed in 1994, this work is the artist's proof from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen
Head of Sale, New Now
212 940 1207
asemjen@phillips.com

New Now

New York Auction 8 March 2023