May 15, 2025 - Sale 2704

Sale 2704 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 22,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See (1940-2025)
El Moro.

1981.

Pastel on Arches paper, signed and dedicated in pencil, lower left titled, dated and inscribed, 57M on verso; 765 x 565 mm; 30 x 22¼ in.

"Smith's work engages with contemporary modes of making, from her idiosyncratic adoption of abstraction to her reflections on American Pop art and neo-expressionism. These artistic traditions are incorporated and reimagined with concepts rooted in Smith's own cultural practice, reflecting her belief that her 'life's work involves examining contemporary life in America and interpreting it through Native ideology.'" (Quoted from the Whitney's retrospective blurb.)

Provenance
Given by the artist to the dedicatees, private collection, Colorado.