Live Auction 2895Latin American Art
Gabriel Orozco (Mexican b. 1962)
Lot 72 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ANITA REINER

Gabriel Orozco (Mexican b. 1962)

Concha con conchas

Closed25 November 2014

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USD 62,500

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Gabriel Orozco (Mexican b. 1962)
Concha con conchas
iron chair and seashells
33 x 28½ x 37 in. (83.8 x 72.39 x 93.9 cm.)
Executed in 1999.
Unique.

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner (2003).

Specialist note

I don't know what is natural and what is artificial. Those distinctions between the natural and the artificial, the geometric and the organic—these are the extremes we navigate.
—Gabriel Orozco1


1 See "Crazy about Saturn: Gabriel Orozco Interviewed by Briony Fer" in Yves-Alain Bois, ed., Gabriel Orozco, October Files 9, Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009, 165.