Vik Muniz - Photographs New York Friday, April 5, 2024 | Phillips
  • “No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
    —Edward Hopper

    In order to create his reinterpretation of Edward Hopper’s 1949 painting Summer in the City, Vik Muniz collaged thousands of pieces of paper torn from magazine pages, meticulously replicating the color and composition of the original work. The collage was then photographed and enlarged without losing any of the details of its constituent parts. Close examination reveals fragmentary images and tantalizing snippets of text, all of which seem to apply directly or obliquely to Hopper’s painting. This brilliant layering of high and low cultural references is a hallmark of Muniz’s work.    

     

    • Provenance

      Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2015

    • Literature

      Capivara, Vik Muniz: Catalogue Raisonné 1987–2015: Everything So Far, Vol. II, p. 778

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Summer in the City, after Edward Hopper from Pictures of Magazines 2

2011
Chromogenic print.
70 x 90 in. (177.8 x 228.6 cm)
Overall 74 3/4 x 103 3/4 in. (189.9 x 263.5 cm)

Signed, dated in ink, printed title, date and number 6/6 on a gallery label affixed to the reverse of the flush-mount.

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Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

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New York Auction 5 April 2024