Live Auction 2541First Open Post-War Contemporary Art
CARRIE MAE WEEMS (B. 1953)
Lot 26 Works from the Peter Norton Collection

CARRIE MAE WEEMS (B. 1953)

Untitled (Kitchen Table Series)

Closed7 March 2012

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CARRIE MAE WEEMS (B. 1953)
Untitled (Kitchen Table Series)
signed and numbered 'Carrie Mae Weems 1/10' (on the colophon); numbered again '1/10' (on the reverse of each element)
twenty elements--platinum print
fourteen elements--ink on paper
photographs, each: 20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm.)
texts, each: 11 x 11 in. (27.9 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed in 1990 and printed in 2003. This work is number one from an edition of ten plus two artist's proof and one printer's proof. This work is accompanied by the portfolio box.

Other examples from this edition are in the permanent Collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln and Centro Andaluz de Artes Contemporaneas (CAAC), Seville. (34)

P.P.O.W., Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001

Specialist note

"...from the very beginning, I've been interested in the idea of power and the consequences of power; relationships are made and articulated through power. Another thing that's interesting about the early work is that even though I've been engaged in the idea of autobiography, other ideas have been more important: the role of narrative, the social levels of humor, the deconstruction of documentary, the construction of history, the use of text, storytelling, performance, and the role of memory have all been more central to my thinking than autobiography" - Carrie Mae Weems