Apr 03 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2698 -

Sale 2698 - Lot 83

Estimate: $ 50,000 - $ 75,000
HOWARDENA PINDELL (1943 - )
Untitled #81.

Gouache, acrylic, various punched papers, thread and adhesive, 1976. 254x318 mm; 10x12½ inches (unframed); 362x438x64 mm; 14¼x17¼x2½ inches (including the Plexiglass box). Signed, numbered #81 and dated in pencil, lower right on the mount.

Provenance
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York (label).
Private collection, New York.

Additional Details

This punched paper assemblage is a colorful and early example of Howardena Pindell's important work in this innovative medium. Several other examples of this series, including Untitled #69, were included in the artist's 2018 traveling retrospective, Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen, curated by Naomi Beckwith and Valerie Cassel Oliver, organized at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.