Tauba Auerbach (B. 1981)

Eye Exam II

Details

Tauba Auerbach (B. 1981)
Eye Exam II
ink and graphite on paper
20 x 15 7/8in. (50.8 x 40.4cm.)
Executed in 2005

Provenance

Private Collection, USA.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 13 February 2014, lot 309.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

"My theoretical interest in language and symbols came by way of a graphic interest, which developed while I was working as a sign painter in San Francisco. (…) It was at that job where the graphic element of language opened into something more abstract in my thinking." T. AUERBACH

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