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Julie Mehretu (B. 1970)
Lot 316

Julie Mehretu (B. 1970)

Untitled

Closed17 October 2014

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GBP 92,500

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Julie Mehretu (B. 1970)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Julie Mehretu 2006' (on the reverse)
graphite, watercolour and ink on paper
27½ x 40in. (70 x 101.6cm.)
Executed in 2006

Private Collection, Europe.

Specialist note

‘Right now it just feels like this big knot of all these different tendencies. It’s coming out in my drawings a lot; they look like these nests or gnarled webs. Space is deflated and conflated. I’m still trying to understand it myself’ (J. Mehretu, quoted in L. Chua, ‘Artists in Conversation: Julie Mehretu’, in BOMB Magazine, no. 91, Spring 2005).