Nina Simone Childhood Home: Benefit Auction Co-Presented by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and Pace Gallery | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Nina Simone Childhood Home: Benefit Auction Co-Presented by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and Pace Gallery | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Ellen Gallagher
Abu Simbel
Lot Closed
May 22, 07:02 PM GMT
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ellen Gallagher
b. 1965
Abu Simbel
Executed in 2005
Signed, dated 2005 - 06, and numbered 12/25 on the reverse
Photogravure, watercolor, colour pencil, varnish, pomade, plasticine, blue fur, gold leaf and crystals
24 1/2 x 35-1/2 in. (62 1/5 x 90 1/5 cm.)
Framed: 35 3/4 x 47 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (90 4/5 x 120 x 4 2/5 cm.)
© Ellen Gallagher. Courtesy Gagosian.
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Two Palms, New York (publisher).
Gary Carrion-Murayari, ed., Ellen Gallagher: don't axe me (New York: New Museum, 2013) illustrated in color
Ellen Gallagher: AxME (London: Tate, 2013), no. 10, p. 40, illustrated in color; no. 10, p. 208
Dennis Busch and Robert Klanten, eds., The Age of Collage 2 (Berlin: Gestalten, Dennis Busch and Robert Klanten, eds., The Age of Collage 2 (Berlin: Gestalten, 2016), no. 3, p. 173, illustrated in color
Caoimhfn Mac Giolla Leith, Ellen Gallagher (London: Lund Humphries, 2021), fig. 42, p. 70; fig. 42, p. 71, illustrated in color (installation photo); fig. 45, p. 73, illustrated in color; p.115; p. 142
New Haven, CT, 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery, Black Pulp!, January 19 - March 11, 2016
In 2005, Ellen Gallagher presented Ichthyosaurus, a site-specific solo show at the Freud Museum in London. For this exhibition, Gallagher produced Abu Simbel, a print combining a photogravure of the Great Temple of Ramesses II that hung in Sigmund Freud’s library, and a plasticine rendition of Sun Ra’s spaceship from the 1972 film Space is the Place. In this ray-gun-irradiated tableau, two inlaid Black figures pilot the spacecraft on a rescue mission to retrieve the severed heads below. Two uniformed nurses with eerie smiles, avatars of the notorious Nurse Rivers, stand at the entrance to the stone temple trying to lure the ship onto the rocks. Further to the right are three official-looking men, conscripts from a Jet magazine article about real-estate speculation in Harlem.