ID 1167534
Lot 348 | LAURIE SIMMONS (B. 1949)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
Walking Purse
signed, titled and dated 'Walking Purse 1988 L. Simmons' (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print face-mounted to Plexiglas
84 x 48 in. (213.4 x 121.9 cm.)
Executed in 1988. This work is number five from an edition of five plus two artist's proofs.
Provenance
Thomas Ammann Fine Arts, Zürich
Private collection, United States
Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 17 November 2006, lot 388
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 14 November 2008, lot 300
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips, London, 2 November 2017, lot 38
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Laurie Simmons: The Music of Regret, exh. cat., The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1997, p. 102 (another example illustrated).
N. Grubb, ed., Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying, New York, 2005, p. 86, pl. 51 (another example illustrated).
Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2019, p. 159 and 256 (another example illustrated).
Exhibited
Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, May-August 1989 (another example exhibited).
Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus and Helsinki, Nykytaiteen Museo, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons: Re-turning the Gaze, January-May 1993, p. 23 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
| Artist: | Laurie Simmons (1949) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Artist: | Laurie Simmons (1949) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
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