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Vik Muniz (b. 1961)
Lot 888

Vik Muniz (b. 1961)

La Japonaise, after Claude Monet (Pictures of Pigment)

Closed18 May 2017

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Vik Muniz (b. 1961)
La Japonaise, after Claude Monet (Pictures of Pigment)
signed and dated 'Vik Muniz 2006' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
chromogenic print
64 x 40 in. (162.5 x 101.6 cm.)
Executed in 2006. This work is the second artist's proof from an edition of six plus four artist's proofs.

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Anon. sale; Artnet Auctions, 25 April 2014, lot ID 97163
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“My working process has always involved the recycling of both physical and conceptual aspects of media; my thinking process has always been a survival-training course in how to cope with irreversible contradictions.” (V. Muniz, Vik Muniz: Reflex, exh. cat., Miami Art Museum, Miami, 2005, p. 149)