Vik Muniz - 20th C. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Galería Camargo Vilaça, Saõ Paulo
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Venice, XLIX Biennale di Venizia, Vik Muniz, Ernesto Neto, June 6 - November 4, 2001, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz, January 27 - May 20, 2001 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Vik Muniz, exh. cat., Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Milan, 2003, p. 238 (another example illustrated, p. 142)
    James Elkins, Moacir Dos Anjos and Shelley Rice, Vik Muniz: Obra Incompleta, Rio de Janeiro, 2004, p. 237 (another example illustrated)
    Pedro Corrêa do Lago, ed., Vik Muniz: Obra Completa 1987 - 2009, Rio de Janeiro, 2009, p. 395 (another example illustrated)
    Pedro Corrêa do Lago, ed., Vik Muniz: Catalogue Raisonné 1987 - 2015: Everything So Far (Tudo Até Agora), Rio de Janeiro, 2015, p. 437 (another example illustrated)

Property from a Distinguished Private Collector

446

After Tony Smith, Die, 1962, Installed at the Whitney Museum in "From the Collection: Photography, Sculpture, and Painting", July 14, 1994 - February 26, 1995 (from Pictures of Dust)

chromogenic print
71 1/2 x 89 in. (181.6 x 226.1 cm.)
Executed in 2000, this work is number 3 from an edition of 3 plus 3 artist's proofs and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

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

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $17,500

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20th C. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 13 November 2019