Nov 15, 2007 - Sale 2129

Sale 2129 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JOEL PETER WITKIN
The Revenge of Guernica.

Pencil on smooth cream wove paper, 1982-89. 280x229 mm; 11x9 inches. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin.

This work refers to Pablo Picasso's Guernica, his painting depicting the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, on April 26, 1937. Between 250 and 1600 Spaniards were killed during the bombing and many hundreds more were injured.