Live Auction 15348Post-War and Contemporary Art
Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953)
Lot 276 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK

Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953)

Untitled (Colored People Grid)

Closed1 March 2018

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USD 81,250

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Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953)
Untitled (Colored People Grid)
inkjet print in artist's frame, in forty-two parts
each: 10 x 10 in. (25.4 x 25.4 cm.)
overall dimensions: 87 7/8 x 75 1/8 in. (223.2 x 190.8 cm.)
Executed in 2009-2010. This work is number one from an edition of five plus two artist's proofs.

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

“How can we use color to obscure, color to reveal, color to laugh at, and color to love? It’s complicated. It’s not just one thing about blackness. It’s a more complicated thing about vitality and richness of color…I’m interested in those ideas, which lead me to ideas of color theory, color practice. The work is always playing with levels of idea and meaning, it’s never just about race. That would be really fucking boring.” - Carrie Mae Weems