Feb 15, 2024 - Sale 2659

Sale 2659 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
CARRIE MAE WEEMS (1953- )
Untitled, from her Not Manet's Type series. Offset photolithograph, the image measuring 17 inches (43.2 cm.) square, the sheet 40x20 inches (102x50.8 cm.), with Weems' signature, date, and edition notation 3/40 in pencil and her printed caption on recto. 1997; printed 2001

Printed and published by Segura Arts Studio, Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture, with the blind stamp lower right.

Each of the prints in photographer Carrie Mae Weems' five-part series Not Manet's Type is comprised of a nude self-portrait with a brief inscription below. Here the text reads, "It was clear, / I was not Manet's type / Picasso -- who had a way / with women -- only used me / & Duchamp never even / considered me"