Mar 31, 2022 - Sale 2599

Sale 2599 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - )
Men of Iron.

Digital print with ultra-chrome archival inks on Epson 9600, 2004. 520x698 mm; 20 1/2x27 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/30 in pencil, lower margin. Printed at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers University. Published by Alexander and Bonin, New York.

On the cusp of his fiftieth birthday, Willie Cole used his body for a duo of 2004 prints; Silex Male. Ritual and Sunbeam Male. Ceremonial. A third print, Men of Iron, united and compacted the paired figures of the previous two.