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Glenn Ligon (born 1960) Photo Pocket 1995 image 1
Glenn Ligon (born 1960) Photo Pocket 1995 image 2
Lot 36*

Glenn Ligon
(born 1960)
Photo Pocket
1995

22 October 2020, 17:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £31,312.50 inc. premium

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Glenn Ligon (born 1960)

Photo Pocket
1995

cotton canvas, vinyl, metal rings, rope, acetate and chromogenic prints

132.1 by 33 by 33 cm.
52 by 13 by 13 in.

This work was executed in 1995, and is number one from an edition of seven.


Footnotes

Provenance
Private Collection
Sale: Phillips, New York, Contemporary Art Day, 16 May 2014, Lot 321
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited
Philadelphia, Fabric Workshop and Museum; Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology List Visual Arts Center, Glenn Ligon: Skin Tight, 1995 (another example exhibited)

Literature
David Chandler, John Gill, Tania Guha and Gilane Tawadros Eds., Boxer: an Anthology of Writings on Boxing and Visual Arts Practice, London 1996, p. 60-61 and 68-69 another example illustrated in colour (installation view) and p. 65 another example illustrated in colour
Marion Boulton Stroud, New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia 2002, p. 173, another example illustrated in colour

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