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Auction archive: Lot number 46

An Emmi Whitehorse triptych, "Earth Signs," 1985

Estimate
US$700 - US$900
Price realised:
US$765
Auction archive: Lot number 46

An Emmi Whitehorse triptych, "Earth Signs," 1985

Estimate
US$700 - US$900
Price realised:
US$765
Beschreibung:

Property of Various Owners, Lots 46-47 Emmi Whitehorse Navajo, (b. 1957), "Earth Signs," three works, 7/85, mixed media on paper, mounted on canvas, each signed lower right. sizes 32in x 48in and 28in x 40in (2) Fußnoten "Touch is all important to Emmi Whitehorse's unique style. She uses her hands to smear, caress, and fine-tune the dry washes of her grounds. The actual drawing process is equally intuitive... Viewers can choose -as we adjust our eyesight, our depth of field, to Whitehorse's intricate cyphers- whether to read these signs of nature as either very near ('myopic,' she calls it) or very far away. Either way, the tangles of marks amount to a secret cache, a secret code" (Lippard, Lucy R., "All the Way Home," 2006, essay for Whitehorse exhibition, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art).

Auction archive: Lot number 46
Auction:
Datum:
16 Sep 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Los Angeles 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90046 Tel: +1 323 850 7500 Fax : +1 323 850 6090 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Property of Various Owners, Lots 46-47 Emmi Whitehorse Navajo, (b. 1957), "Earth Signs," three works, 7/85, mixed media on paper, mounted on canvas, each signed lower right. sizes 32in x 48in and 28in x 40in (2) Fußnoten "Touch is all important to Emmi Whitehorse's unique style. She uses her hands to smear, caress, and fine-tune the dry washes of her grounds. The actual drawing process is equally intuitive... Viewers can choose -as we adjust our eyesight, our depth of field, to Whitehorse's intricate cyphers- whether to read these signs of nature as either very near ('myopic,' she calls it) or very far away. Either way, the tangles of marks amount to a secret cache, a secret code" (Lippard, Lucy R., "All the Way Home," 2006, essay for Whitehorse exhibition, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art).

Auction archive: Lot number 46
Auction:
Datum:
16 Sep 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Los Angeles 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90046 Tel: +1 323 850 7500 Fax : +1 323 850 6090 info.us@bonhams.com
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