Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ABDI FARAH (1988 - )
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Etching on BFK Rives wove paper, 2011. 324x460 mm; 12 3/4x18 1/8 inches, full margins. Artist's proof. Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "Artist Proof" and numbered #3 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression.

Provenance: the artist, donated to the Senator Chuck Allen, III Scholarship Fund.

Abdi Farah graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 with a B.A. in Fine Art. He was awarded the Scholastics Art and Writing Gold Portfolio and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. In 2010, Farah won Bravo's reality television show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, from which he received a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.