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ZARINA (1937-2020)

Lot 725
20.09.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 252 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027204
Lot 725 | ZARINA (1937-2020)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 70 000
ZARINA (1937-2020)

Letters from Home

numbered, titled, signed and dated '15/20 Letter I-VIII Zarina 2004' (lower edge) each

woodblock and metalcut on handmade Kozo paper mounted on Somerset paper

11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm.) smallest image; 12 x 9 ¼ in. (30.5 x 23.5 cm.) largest image; 22 ¼ x 15 in. (56.5 x 38.1 cm.) each sheet

Executed in 2004; portfolio of eight prints, two title sheets and original box; number fifteen from an edition of twenty





Provenance

The Collection of the artist

Thence by descent

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2018



Literature

Zarina: Counting 1977-2005, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2005 (another edition illustrated, unpaginated)

Zarina: Weaving Memory, 1990-2006, exhibition catalogue, Mumbai, 2007 (another edition illustrated, unpaginated)

S.S. Patel, ‘Zarina: Edges of Her World’, Art Asia Pacific, No. 54, July-August 2007, p. 75 (one from another edition illustrated)

Home Spun, exhibition catalogue, New Delhi, 2011, pp. 32, 34 (another edition illustrated)

A. Mufti, 'Zarina Hashmi and the Arts of Dispossession', The Migrant's Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora, Williamstown, 2011, pp. 189, 190 (two from another edition illustrated)

I. Dadi and H. Nassar, Lines of Control, Partition as a Productive Space, 2012, pp. 98, 170-171 (five from another edition illustrated)

A. Pesenti, Zarina: Paper Like Skin, Los Angeles, 2012, pp. 134-137 (another edition illustrated)

Z. Hashmi with S. Burney, Directions to My House, New York, 2018, pp. 78-83 (another edition illustrated)

Z. Jumabhoy, ‘Far From Home’, Artforum, Vol. 58, No. 1, September 2019 (another edition illustrated, unpaginated)

Z. Jumabhoy, ‘Zarina Hashmi (1937-2020): An artist whose work is woven with ideas of displacement and mobility’, Scroll online, 29 April 2020 (another edition illustrated)

U. Nair, ‘Remembering the polymath Zarina Hashmi, one of the few Indian women artists of her time’, Architectural Digest India online, 16 July 2020 (another edition illustrated)

H. Cotter, ‘Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82’, New York Times, 5 May 2020 (another edition illustrated)

S. Jhaveri, 'A Bundle of Emotions: Relating to a Pandemic', Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, No. 78, New York, 2020, p. 5 (one from another edition illustrated)

The Architectural Review, London, September 2020, front and back cover (two from another edition illustrated)

H. Nassar, 'Finding Her Own Way Home', Printmaking Today, Vol. 29, Issue 115, Oxon, 2020, p. 27 (one from another edition illustrated)

S. Genc, 'The Art of Letters: Works by Zarina Hashmi and Sophie Calle', The Rattlecap online, 27 April 2021 (three from another edition illustrated)

A. Sroha, ‘Home and Migration in the Artworks of Zarina Hashmi’, Daily Art Magazine online, 20 June 2022 (another edition illustrated)

T.K. Sahu, 'Zarina Hashmi: A Quest of Own Space in an Unknown World', Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results, Vol. 14, Sp. Issue 2, 2023, p. 215 (one from another edition illustrated)

V. Sarkar, ‘How Zarina Hashmi's Minimalist Art Intersects Identity, Memory, And The Idea Of Home’, Homegrown online, 12 June 2023 (another edition illustrated)

I. Einashe, 'How Can Art Change the Narrative Around Forced Migration?', Art Review online, 14 July 2023 (one from another edition illustrated)



Exhibited

New York, Bose Pacia, Zarina: Counting 1977-2005, 10 November - 22 December 2005 (another edition)

Mumbai, Bodhi Art, Zarina Weaving Memory, 1990-2006, 2007 (another edition)

New Delhi, Devi Art Foundation, Home Spun, 27 August - 27 December 2011 (another edition)

Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, 21 January - 1 April 2012 (another edition)

Los Angeles, Hammer Museum; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; Zarina: Paper Like Skin, September 2012 – September 2013 (another edition)

New Delhi, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Zarina - A Life in Nine Lines, 30 January 2020 - 10 April 2021 (another edition)

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Some Mysterious Process, 1 June - 13 September, 2020 (another edition)

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter, 3 December 2022 - 27 August 2023 (another edition)
Art style:Contemporary art
Place of origin:India, Asia
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