Oct 07, 2021 - Sale 2581

Sale 2581 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LORNA SIMPSON (1960 - )
Untitled [What Should Fit Here Is An Oblique Story...].

Photogravure and screenprint with hand coloring in watercolor, 1993. 890x1160 mm; 35 3/8×45 5/8 inches (sheet); 730x546 mm; 28 3/4×21 1/2 inches (left image); 730x406 mm; 28 3/4×16 inches (right image). Signed, titled, dated and numbered 18/53 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Deli Sacilotto, with the printer's blindstamp lower left. Published by Brooke Alexander Editions, New York.

Provenance: the estate of Patricia Dowd Whitman, New York. Patricia Dowd Whitman was an admired staff member at The MoMA from 1974 until she retired in 2007. She was responsible for building relationships with donors and artists such as Dorothea Rockburne, Tom Otterness, and Jeanne-Claude and Christo. From 1990 until her retirement, she was the Director of the Contemporary Arts Council at MoMA.

Additional impressions are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota.