Live Auction 5539Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Christopher Williams (B. 1943)
Lot 111

Christopher Williams (B. 1943)

Rina, Jabon De Lavar "Lava, Limpia, Dura Mas" 200 gr. Photography by the Douglas M. Parker Studio, Los Angeles, California November 8, 2004

Closed28 June 2012

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GBP 34,850

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Christopher Williams (B. 1943)
Rina, Jabon De Lavar
"Lava, Limpia, Dura Mas"
200 gr.
Photography by the Douglas M. Parker Studio,
Los Angeles, California
November 8, 2004
signed, titled and dated 'RINA 06 C. WILLIAMS' (on the reverse)
dye transfer print
29 3/8 x 32½in. (74.5 x 82.5cm.)
Executed in 2006, this work is an artist's proof from an edition of ten plus four artist's proofs

Donated by the artist.

Specialist note

"At a time when the appropriation of art history and popular culture has become "de riguer" in contemporary practice, Williams insists on re-linking such gestures to histories of rupture and unrest, revisiting an original connection between appropriation and insurrection."
J. Kelsey quoted in Christopher Williams, 97.5 Mhz, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich 2007, unpaged.