Vik Muniz - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, October 14, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Photo and Contemporary/Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
    Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1999)
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, International Center of Photography, Vik Muniz: Seeing is Believing, 11 September - 15 November 1998, p. 159 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 130-131, titled Milan (The Last Supper))
    Paris, Galerie Xippas, Vik Muniz: After Warhol, 20 November 1999 - 29 January 2000, n.p. (another variant exhibited and illustrated)
    Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), Vik Muniz, 27 September 2003 - 4 January 2004, n.p. (another variant exhibited and illustrated, p. 102)
    The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Vik Muniz, 15 February - 13 April 2003 (another example exhibited)
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, 13 December 2003 - 23 May 2004, pl. 5, p. 184 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 36-37)
    Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Vik Muniz, 28 February - 29 May 2016 (another variant exhibited and illustrated, pp. 84-85)
    New York, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, The Value of Food: Sustaining a Green Planet, 6 October 2015 - 3 April 2016 (another variant exhibited)

  • Literature

    James Elkins, Moacir dos Anjos and Shelley Rice, Vik Muniz: Incomplete Works, Rio de Janeiro, 2004, p. 36 (another variant illustrated)
    Pedro Corrêa do Lago, Vik Muniz Obra Completa 1987-2009 Catalogue Raisonné, Rio de Janeiro, 2009, p. 312 (another example illustrated, pp. 311-312)
    Pedro Corrêa do Lago, Vik Muniz: Everything So Far: Catalogue Raisonné 1987-2015, Volume I, Rio de Janeiro, 2015, p. 352
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, 'Vik Muniz Believes That His Work As An Artist Has More To Do With Ignorance Than Knowledge', Forbes, 22 October 2019, online (another example listed)

189

Milan (Last Supper), After Andy Warhol (Picture of Chocolate)

signed and dated 'Vik Muniz 1998' on the artist's label affixed to the reverse
Cibachrome print on aluminium, triptych
left and centre parts 93 x 78 cm (36 5/8 x 30 3/4 in.)
right part 93 x 80.5 cm (36 5/8 x 31 3/4 in.)
overall 93 x 236.5 cm (36 5/8 x 93 1/8 in.)

Executed in 1998, this work is number 3 from an edition of 3 plus 3 artist's proofs.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for £52,920

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 14 October 2021