Walking Purse
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LAURIE SIMMONS (B. 1949)
Simmons, L.
Walking Purse
signed, titled and dated 'Walking Purse 1988 L. Simmons' (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print face-mounted to Plexiglas
84 x 48 in. (213.4 x 121.9 cm.)
Executed in 1988. This work is number five from an edition of five plus two artist's proofs.
Simmons, L.
Walking Purse
signed, titled and dated 'Walking Purse 1988 L. Simmons' (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print face-mounted to Plexiglas
84 x 48 in. (213.4 x 121.9 cm.)
Executed in 1988. This work is number five from an edition of five plus two artist's proofs.
Provenance
Thomas Ammann Fine Arts, Zürich
Private collection, United States
Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 17 November 2006, lot 388
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 14 November 2008, lot 300
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips, London, 2 November 2017, lot 38
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Private collection, United States
Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 17 November 2006, lot 388
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 14 November 2008, lot 300
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips, London, 2 November 2017, lot 38
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Laurie Simmons: The Music of Regret, exh. cat., The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1997, p. 102 (another example illustrated).
N. Grubb, ed., Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying, New York, 2005, p. 86, pl. 51 (another example illustrated).
Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2019, p. 159 and 256 (another example illustrated).
N. Grubb, ed., Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying, New York, 2005, p. 86, pl. 51 (another example illustrated).
Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2019, p. 159 and 256 (another example illustrated).
Exhibited
Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, May-August 1989 (another example exhibited).
Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus and Helsinki, Nykytaiteen Museo, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons: Re-turning the Gaze, January-May 1993, p. 23 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus and Helsinki, Nykytaiteen Museo, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons: Re-turning the Gaze, January-May 1993, p. 23 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
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