François Corbeau - Design New York Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | Phillips
  • Lots 126, 129, and 201 in the present auction come from the collection of pioneering gallerist Brent Sikkema (1948-2024). Sikkema was renowned for championing the work of some of the principal artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Kara Walker, Vik Muniz, Mark Bradford, Deana Lawson, and many others, and for broadening the market for Latin American art.   

     

    Mr. Sikkema studied photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. After earning his BFA in 1970 he became director of traveling exhibitions, and later director of exhibitions, at the Visual Studies Workshop, the groundbreaking photographic collective in Rochester, New York. In 1976 he relocated to Boston where he worked for Vision Gallery, handling 19th and 20th century photography, later becoming its owner and maintaining an adventurous curatorial program. He made his first foray into the New York City gallery world in 1989, exhibiting in a temporary space. He opened a permanent gallery in 1991; called Wooster Gardens, it quickly became known as a premiere venue for contemporary art. In 1999, Sikkema moved the gallery to Chelsea, partnering with Michael Jenkins under the name Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Sikkema’s generous support inspired loyalty in the artists in his stable, many of whom chose to remain with the gallery even after receiving invitations from the larger mega-galleries.

    • Provenance

      Twenty First/Twenty First Gallery, New York
      Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008

    • Literature

      Stephen Treffinger, "Currents: Limited Editions from a Paris Dealer," The New York Times, March 27, 2008, n.p.

Property from the Collection of Brent Sikkema

201

"Ronde-Bosse Semainier"

2008
Polished tin-covered wood.
55 x 12 5/8 x 15 1/4 in. (139.7 x 32.1 x 38.7 cm)

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $9,525

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New York Auction 11 December 2024