01-16-201401-16-2014
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
January 16, 2014 10:00 AMCalender
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Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960) Boxed Sculpture and Three Framed Works: III

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$246$200
Auction: Discovery - 2699MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: January 16, 2014 10:00AM

Description:

Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960)Boxed Sculpture and Three Framed Works:
III, Peter Norton Family Christmas Edition, 1994
Edition of 5,000, identified on card and inscription on underside of lid.
Cedar and lithographed felt box containing ceramic, rubber, and bronze wishbone sculptures, "The Gull,"
signed "Will Barnet," photo-reproduction, a landscape-view photograph signed "T. Blagden" l.r., and an unsigned painted photographic print of a woman and a girl on a boat, box dimensions 13 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/8 in.

Note: Card includes an introduction from Thelma Golden, then associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, who was the Special Projects Curator for contemporary art collectors Peter Norton and Eileen Harris Norton from 1998 to 2000.
Estimate $200-300


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Keywords

Lorna Simpson, rubber, associate curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, Eileen Harris Norton, Peter Norton, Thelma Golden, Special Projects Curator