ID 717582
Lot 293 | WANGECHI MUTU (B. 1972)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
You pretty, no you pretty
(i) signed, inscribed, numbered and dated ‘You so pretty, No you so pretty Wangechi Mutu 2008 1⁄2’ (on a label affixed to the backing board)
(ii) signed, inscribed, numbered and dated ‘You so pretty, No pretty so pretty Wangechi Mutu 2008 2⁄2’ (on a label affixed to the backing board)
watercolour, metallic paint and printed paper collage on paper, in two parts
each: 12 1⁄4 x 9in. (31 x 23cm.)
Executed in 2008
Provenance
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.
Exhibited
Culver City, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Wangechi Mutu: Little Touched, 2008.
Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim, Wangechi Mutu. My Dirty Little Heaven, 2010, p. 137 (illustrated in colour, pp. 84-85).
Special notice
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| Artist: | Wangechi Mutu (1972) |
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| Applied technique: | Mixed media |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Africa |
| Artist: | Wangechi Mutu (1972) |
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| Applied technique: | Mixed media |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Africa |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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