Property from a Private Collection, France
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Graciela Iturbide
Casa de Frida Kahlo, Coyoacán, Mexico
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- £20,000 - 30,000
Lot Details
Los Angeles: Rose Gallery, 2007. Six dye transfer prints.
2005
Each 29.8 x 30.2 cm (11 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.)
Each signed, titled, dated and numbered 3/6 in pencil on the verso. Accompanied by a portfolio case and Colophon.
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‘I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.’
Frida Kahlo
In 2005, Graciela Iturbide was granted a week’s access to Frida Kahlo’s house in Mexico City where the artist spent most of her life. Immersing herself in Kahlo’s private spaces – the bedroom and bathroom particularly – Iturbide documented the rooms and objects left intact and untouched since the painter’s death. Iturbide photographed the bath, corsets, artificial limbs and other objects, many of which were blood stained or paint splattered. The current lot, a portfolio of six dye transfer prints, is a record of these everyday objects and places that shaped the painter and her canvases.
One of Mexico’s foremost living artists, Graciela Iturbide studied under Manuel Álvarez Bravo at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográfcos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and later worked as his assistant. She received the Hasselblad Award in 2008 and has exhibited at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Fundación Mapfre, Madrid; and the Tate Modern, London.
Frida Kahlo
In 2005, Graciela Iturbide was granted a week’s access to Frida Kahlo’s house in Mexico City where the artist spent most of her life. Immersing herself in Kahlo’s private spaces – the bedroom and bathroom particularly – Iturbide documented the rooms and objects left intact and untouched since the painter’s death. Iturbide photographed the bath, corsets, artificial limbs and other objects, many of which were blood stained or paint splattered. The current lot, a portfolio of six dye transfer prints, is a record of these everyday objects and places that shaped the painter and her canvases.
One of Mexico’s foremost living artists, Graciela Iturbide studied under Manuel Álvarez Bravo at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográfcos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and later worked as his assistant. She received the Hasselblad Award in 2008 and has exhibited at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Fundación Mapfre, Madrid; and the Tate Modern, London.
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Graciela Iturbide
Mexican | 1942One of Mexico’s foremost living artists, Graciela Iturbide challenges national stereotypes in her photography, documenting the lives of the indigenous population of her native Mexico. She studied under Manuel Álvarez Bravo at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos, part of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and later worked as his assistant. Iturbide has received multiple awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988, the Hasselblad Award in 2008 and the PHotoEspaña Award in 2010. Her work has been exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid; and Tate Modern, London.
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