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
Martin Puryear
Untitled V
Lot Closed
May 22, 07:09 PM GMT
Estimate
11,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Martin Puryear
b. 1941
Untitled V
Executed in 2005.
Intaglio print
Image: 8 × 24 in (45 7/10 × 61 cm.)
Paper: 29 × 34 in. (73 7/10 × 86 2/5 cm.)
© Martin Puryear courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
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Acquired from the artist's studio
The work of sculptor Martin Puryear is often referred to as an intersection of minimalism and the traditional craftsmanship he spent his childhood studying. Puryear predominantly works in stone, wood, wire, and tar. His prints reflect the organic shapes and architectural aesthetics that inform the majority of his sculptural works, seen in the fine lines and vessel-like forms of Untitled V (2005). This print was published by Paulson Fontaine Press, located in Berkley, CA, who Puryear has long collaborated with. Untitled V was included in a major exhibition of Puryear’s prints in 2016, Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions, which traveled from the Art Institute of Chicago to the Morgan Library and Museum in New York and the Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington D.C.