Vik Muniz - Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, New York New York Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Sikkema Jenkins & Company, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Vik Muniz: Pictures of Anything, March 27–August 2, 2014, p. 87 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    (iii) New York, Museum of Arts and Design, New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art from Latin America, November 4, 2014–April 6, 2015, p. 23, 150 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 150)
    Miami, Mana Wynwood; Jersey City, Mana Contemporary, Everything you are I am not: Latin American contemporary art from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection, December 3, 2015–July 23, 2016 (another example exhibited)
    Albuquerque Museum; Puebla, Museo Amparo, New Territories, January 9–September 26, 2016 (another example exhibited)
    Davenport, Figge Art Museum, Vik Muniz: Hand Remade, June 8–September 2019 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Kristin Bauer, "David Ellis and 5 Other Artists Transform Trash Into Dynamic Works of Art", Beautiful/Decay, December 15, 2003
    Vik Muniz and Pedro Corrêa do Lago, eds., Vik Muniz: Everything So Far: Catalogue Raisonné 1987–2015, vol. 2, Rio de Janeiro 2016, pp. 692–699 (another example illustrated)
    Iain Millar, "Film Follows Brazilian Artist's Project with Garbage Pickers in Rio", The Art Newspaper, November 2010, p. 218
    (iii) Katherine Bindley, "A Modern Marat", The Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2010, online (another example illustrated)
    (iii) Carol Kino, "Where Art Meets Trash and Transforms Life", The New York Times, October 21, 2010, online (another example illustrated)
    Stephen Holden, "From a Universe of Trash, Recycling Art and Hope", The New York Times, October 28, 2010, online
    Jason Edward Kaufman, "Oscar-nominated 'Waste Land' gives grace (and art) to garbage", The Washington Post, March 12, 2011, online
    (iii) Vik Muniz, "Reframing Trash Into Art," The New York Times, December 6, 2023, online (another example illustrated)

21

Seven works from the series Pictures of Garbage: (i) The Sower (Zumbi); (ii) The Bearer (Irmã); (iii) Marat (Sebastião); (iv) The Gypsy (Magna); (v) Woman Ironing (Isis) ; (vi) Mother and Children (Suellem); (vii) Atlas (Carlão)

(vii) signed and dated "Vik Muniz 2008–11" on a label affixed to the reverse of the backing board
chromogenic print, in 7 parts
(i, iii) 30 1/4 x 23 1/2 in. (76.8 x 59.7 cm)
(ii) 30 3/4 x 23 1/2 in. (78.1 x 59.7 cm)
(iv, vii) 30 x 23 1/2 in. (76.2 x 59.7 cm)
(v) 33 1/4 x 23 1/2 in. (84.5 x 59.7 cm)
(vi) 30 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (77.5 x 59.7 cm)

Executed in 2008–2011, these works are number 18 from an edition of 30.

Estimate
$40,000 - 50,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, New York

26 February - 11 March 2025