Oct 07, 2021 - Sale 2581

Sale 2581 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
CARRIE MAE WEEMS (1953 - )
Untitled (See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil).

Three chromogenic prints on Kodak Professional photo paper, 1995. 175x465 mm; 6 7/8x18 inches overall. 508x610 mm; 20x24 inches (sheet). Edition of 200. Signed and dated ink on the verso.

Another print from this edition is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

The original triptych was comprised of individual Polaroid photographs. In 1990, Carrie Mae Weems was invited by Polaroid to use their mammoth 20-by-24-inch camera. It was Weem's first use of color in her work. The first Polaroid of the triptych See No Evil is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.