Oct 03, 2024 - Sale 2680

Sale 2680 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
CARRIE MAE WEEMS (1953 - )
Slow Fade to Black.

Inkjet print, 2011. 330x254 mm; 13x10 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 55/100 in pencil, verso. Published by the Nazareli Press, Portland, OR in 2012. From set 3 of Six by Six

This print was issued as part of the 2012 third Six by Six publication, a series of 6 sets of six books by various photographers, each including an orginal artwork. Weems' original 2010 Slow Fade to Black series of photographs reworked images of Black singers and performers captured at the height of their success in the mid- to late 20th century.