Online Auction 19113First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online
KARA WALKER (B. 1969)
Lot 8

KARA WALKER (B. 1969)

Emancipation Approximation; Plate 15

Closed30 March 2021

Price Realised

GBP 10,000

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

More Information

How to sell

KARA WALKER (B. 1969)
Emancipation Approximation; Plate 15
signed with the artist's initials, numbered and dated 'XXI / XXV KW 2000' (on the reverse)
screenprint on paper
43 7/8 x 33 7/8in. (111.5 x 86cm.)
Executed in 2000, this work is number twenty-one from an edition of twenty plus five artist's proofs

The complete portfolio of Emancipation Approximation is in the permanent collection of Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

mo-artgallery, Amsterdam.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

To demand exactitude in the pursuit of a historical truth is to go where no mind can venture and return whole. The load is too large to carry, the losses too many and too varied. Truth will drain from your hands like so much water. Instead, you will find yourself drawing on tales from the past – historical accounts, novels and songs that compress shared memory – to make the bitter truth at least partly digestible.
- Kara Walker

Related stories

View all stories