VIK MUNIZ (B. 1961)

Name: Red, Orange, Orange on Red, After Mark Rothko (Pictures of Pigment)
Brand: VIK MUNIZ (B. 1961)
Price: 60000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 75,000

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USD 60,000 - USD 80,000

Closed: 4 Oct 2013

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Red, Orange, Orange on Red, After Mark Rothko (Pictures of Pigment)

VIK MUNIZ (B. 1961)

Price Realised USD 75,000

Closed: 4 Oct 2013

Price Realised USD 75,000

Closed: 4 Oct 2013

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VIK MUNIZ (B. 1961)
Red, Orange, Orange on Red, After Mark Rothko (Pictures of Pigment)
signed `Vik Muniz 2008' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
c-print
74 x 70 in. (188 x 180 cm.)
Executed in 2008. This work is number six from an edition of six and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Provenance
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
P. Corrêa do Lago, Vik Muniz Obra Completa 1987-2009 Catálogo Raisonné, Rio de Janerio, 2009, p. 571 (another example illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

The international Brazilian artist Vik Muniz is renowned for reconstructing imagery with uncommon materials, such as paper, toys, diamond, refuse, dry pigment, chocolate and sugar. Such ephemeral compositions are then photographed and magnified by the artist. His constructed scenes tap into the history of art, creating scenery that invites the spectator to further investigate his inventive use of materials. Muniz's photographs are extremely detail-oriented and outline the unique characteristics of the material with exquisite elegance. In , the artist expresses his ultimate homage to the Abstract Expressionist painter by recreating one of Rothko's works with a complex and accurate arrangement of dry pigment.