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JAMES SIENA (B. 1957)
Lot 137 PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA

JAMES SIENA (B. 1957)

Five prints by the artist

Closed25 July 2014

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JAMES SIENA (B. 1957)
Five prints by the artist
Each signed, dated and numbered '30/60 James Siena 04' in pencil (at the lower sheet edge)
the complete set of five woodcuts on Fabriano Tiepolo paper, Rives BFK paper, Fabriano Tiepolo paper, Lana Gravure paper, and Johannot paper (respectively)
12 x 10¼ in. (30.5 x 26 cm.)
Executed in 2004. This work is number thirty from the edition of sixty. (5)

Pace Prints, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

Including: Two Floppy Combs; Double Recursive Combs-Horizontal; Recursive Combs-Vertical; Floppy Recursive Combs; and Heliopolis

Siena completed several artist-in-residency programs, most notably at the Yaddo artist community, Saratoga Springs, New York in 2004. He was elected a Member of the Board there in 2008.

'When I make a painting, I respond to a set of parameters, like a visual algorithm. These structuring devices are subject to the fallibility of my hand, and my minds ability to complete the work as planned.'
(R. Hobbs, James Siena: 1991-2001, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, 2001, p. 8.)