05-29-201505-30-2015
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2817BBoston
May 29, 2015 04:00 PMCalender
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Eve Sonneman (American, b. 1946) Ecstasy

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$11,070$9,000
Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2817BLocation: BostonDate / Time: May 29, 2015 4:00PM

Description:

Eve Sonneman (American, b. 1946)

Ecstasy
Titled, signed, and dated "...1998" on the linen tacking edge on the reverse,
identified on a label from Obelisk Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, affixed to the stretcher.
Oil on linen, 72 x 36 in. (183.0 x 91.2 cm),unframed.
Condition: Good.

N.B. Eve Sonneman is a renowned American photographer, known for her singular technique of pairing stills taken seconds apart and presenting them side-by-side. Throughout her career she has also expressed herself in paint, including large abstractions, watercolors, and painted objects. Her distinctive, highly personal form of pointillism has been characterized by the critic Klaus Kertess as "teeming with tiny, obsessively made, evanescent rings congealing into a delicate and fugitive, floreate dew." (1)

Ecstasy is part of a series of four paintings, three of which are part of the collection of the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1. Http://www.evesonneman.com/biography.html accessed April 21, 2015.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Eve Sonneman has shown her paintings at Sidney Janis gallery and at Leo Castelli Gallery. The description by Klaus Kertess, quoted above, originally appeared in his catalog essay that accompanied a solo exhibition of Eve Sonneman's worksat Sidney Janis Gallery in New York in 1996 (2).

2. Eve Sonneman: photographs and paintings 1969-1996. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1996.
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