Tony Lewis - Art for One Drop New York Friday, September 21, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the Artist and Massimo De Carlo, Milan / London / Hong Kong

  • Exhibited

    Milan, Massimo De Carlo, Tony Lewis: WORDNONPSEUDO, September 17 - November 7, 2015

  • Catalogue Essay

    Tony Lewis was born in 1986 in Chicago; he lives and works in Chicago. Lewis’s practice focuses on the relationship between semiotics and language. Lewis draws inspiration mainly from his direct experience, mostly connected to his Afro-American origins. Tony Lewis creates drawings, using graphite, pencil and paper that are the mediums the artist uses to trace and create abstract narratives and reflections on the notion of the gestural. Tony Lewis’ work has been exhibited at Art Projects Ibiza; Museo Marino Marini, Florence; MOCA Cleveland; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Aspen Art Museum; Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.

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Henter

pencil and graphite on 4 adjoined sheets of paper
72 x 84 in. (182.9 x 213.4 cm.)
Executed in 2015.

Estimate
$25,000 - 40,000 

Sold for $24,200

Contact Specialist
Sam Mansour
Head of Sale
+1 212 940 1219
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Art for One Drop

New York Charity Auction 21 September 2018