Vik Muniz - New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art New York Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Phillips
  • “For the most part, what I am trying to tap into is the images that are in my head, and I am trying to reproduce them as I feel them in my head. And they are distorted.”
    —Vik Muniz

    • Provenance

      Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
      Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Madrid, Galería Elba Benítez, Vik Muniz, November 16, 2012–January 19, 2013 (another example exhibited)

    • Literature

      Vik Muniz and Pedro Corrêa do Lago, eds., Vik Muniz: Everything So Far: Catalogue Raisonné 1987–2015, vol. 2, Rio de Janeiro, 2016, pp. 766, 893, 897 (another example illustrated, p. 766)

216

Siesta, after Pierre Bonnard (Pictures of Magazines 2)

signed and dated "Vik Muniz 2010" on a label affixed to the reverse of the backing board
digital c-print
71 x 85 in. (180.3 x 215.9 cm)
Executed in 2010, this work is artist's proof 3 from an edition of 6 plus 4 artist's proofs.

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Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $35,560

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New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art

New York Auction 25 September 2024