Oct 08, 2009 - Sale 2189

Sale 2189 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
KARA WALKER (1969 - )
The Emancipation Approximation (Scene 18).

Screenprint on heavy wove paper, 1999 - 2000. 1118x864 mm; 44x34 inches. Printers proof, aside from an edition of 25. Initialed, dated and inscribed "PP1" in pencil, verso. A very good impression of this monumental print.

Another impression is found in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. The women in this print appear in Walker's cut paper and adhesive on painted wall mural, The Rich Soil Down There, 2002, which hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.