Live Auction 20985Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967)
Lot 214

SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967)

Untitled VI (Anatomy of Architecture Series)

Closed18 November 2022

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USD 819,000

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SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967)
Untitled VI (Anatomy of Architecture Series)
terracotta and glaze
23 x 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (58.4 x 32 x 32 cm.)
Executed in 2016.

Tilton Gallery, New York
Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen and Beijing, 2016
Their sale; Christie's, London, 16 July 2020, lot 10
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"I’ve come to see Leigh’s ceramic female figures as sentinels holding space for a culture that is very much in the making, a culture in which whiteness is neither the center nor the frame" (H. Molesworth, ‘Art is Medicine,’ Artforum, March 2018).