Feb 06, 2007 - Sale 2102

Sale 2102 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
GARY SIMMONS (1964- )
Untitled (Chains).

Charcoal on thin wove paper, 2003. 154x224 mm; 6x9 inches. Initialed, dated and numbered 8 in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: Ex-collection AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA), New York.

This artist has become known internationally for his chalk-board and erasure drawings. They evoke the black paintings of Abstract Expressionism and childhood narratives within the contemporary art realms of performance and process art. He received an MFA degree from California Institute of the Arts in 1990. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Dia Art Center, New York.