May 22, 2018 - Sale 2479

Sale 2479 - Lot 377

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
KEHINDE WILEY
After La Negresse, 1872.

Multiple in cast marble dust and resin, 2006. 275x200x125 mm; 10 3/4x7 3/4x4 7/8 inches. Signed, dated '09' and numbered 96/250 in pen and black ink, on the base. Published by Cerealart, Philadelphia. Original printed cardboard packing box.

Wiley's (born 1977) After La Negresse, 1872 references a bust by the 19th-century French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, replacing the original female slave figure with a young male basketball player.