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Lot 404: Scarce Kiki Smith Etching, “Two”

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Kiki Smith (German/American, b. 1954) portrait etching with sanding, “Two,” 2002. Signed, dated, and numbered 16/18 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Harlan & Weaver. Floated under plexiglass in a modern wood frame with white mat. Sheet: 45 in. H x 35 in. W. Sight: 39 in. H x 31 in. W. Frame: 49 in. H x 41 in. W. Note: “In this haunting double-portrait it is unclear whether the sitter, whose head is depicted twice in repose, is dying or merely resting. In the lower image his eyes are slightly open but in the image above they are closed and the face has a peaceful, death mask-like quality to it. Smith used photographs that she took of a friend in her backyard to make this print. For the upper portrait she transferred the image onto the copper plate by tracing the photograph but for the lower image she drew freehand. She created the highlights on the faces with sandpaper.” (Source: Wendy Weitman, KIKI SMITH: PRINTS, BOOKS AND THINGS [New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2003], p. 33). Biographical Note: “Multidisciplinary artist Kiki Smith maintains an expansive studio practice that includes painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, glass, textiles, and printmaking. Her work is in turn ethereal and mystical, yet rooted in her keen observation of the natural world and the physicality of the human body…Smith has been featured at five Venice Biennales, including the 2017 edition. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2017 was awarded the title of Honorary Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Previously, Smith was recognized in 2006 by TIME Magazine as one of the ‘TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.’ Other awards include the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 2000; the 2009 Edward MacDowell Medal; the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award, Purchase College School of the Arts; the 2013 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts, conferred by Hillary Clinton; and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, among others. She is an adjunct professor at NYU and Columbia University. Her work is represented in museums worldwide, including Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and many more.” (Source: Tamarind Institute)

PROVENANCE: The estates of Walter and Dr. Mary Schatz, Nashville.

CONDITION: Excellent condition. Not examined outside of frame. Frame with abrasion to plexiglass, lower left corner. 

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