Jenny Holzer - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Phyllis Freeman, Eric Himmel, Edith Pavese and Anne Yarowsky, eds., New Art, 1984, p. 103 (another example illustrated)
    Jenny Holzer, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1989–1990, no. 26, p. 64 (another example illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Jenny Holzer

    American • 1950

    Jenny Holzer is a Conceptual artist best known for her text-based public art projects. Holzer's work speaks of violence, oppression, sexuality, feminism, power, war and death. Throughout the years, Holzer has employed a variety of media, from a T-shirt to a plaque to an LED sign. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters, and continuing through her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, she uses her art as a form of communication and commentary. Holzer's art hangs in important collections around the globe including 7 World Trade Center, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao and the Whitney Museum of American Art. 

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Selection from The Living Series

cast bronze
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Executed in 1980–1982, this work is from an edition of 3.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $13,970

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024