Online Auction 19255First Open: Post-War & Contemporary Art Online
CILDO MEIRELES (B. 1948)
Lot 109

CILDO MEIRELES (B. 1948)

Zero Dollar

Closed27 October 2020

Price Realised

GBP 3,500

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CILDO MEIRELES (B. 1948)
Zero Dollar
each: signed ‘Cildo Meireles’ (centre left)
ink on printed paper, in two parts
each: 2 5/8 x 6 1/8in. (6.7 x 15.8cm.)
Executed in 1978-1984, this work is from an unnumbered edition

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note

'The idea [referring to Zero Dollar] was to produce an object and then try to put this object into circulation which causes the object to provoke a kind of shift in anthropological behaviour' C. Meireles.

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