Vik Muniz - Photographs London Friday, May 19, 2023 | Phillips
  • “When people look at one of my pictures, I don’t want them to actually see something represented. I prefer for them to see how something gets to represent something else.”
    —Vik Muniz

    • Provenance

      Galerie Xippas, Paris

    • Literature

      Vik Muniz: Obra Completa 1987-2009, Catálogo Raisonné, Rio de Janeiro: Capivara, 2009, p. 599
      Vik Muniz: Le Musée Imaginaire, Arles: Actes Sud, 2011, pp. 142-143
      Vik Muniz: Catalogue Raisonné, 1987-2015: Everything So Far, Vol. II, Rio de Janeiro: Capivara, 2015, p. 649

76

The Poppy Field at Argenteuil, after Claude Monet from Pictures of Pigment

2005
Chromogenic print, mounted.
Image: 178.4 x 237.8 cm (70 1/4 x 93 5/8 in.)
Frame: 190.2 x 249.6 cm (74 7/8 x 98 1/4 in.)

Signed, dated in ink, printed title and number 2/6 on a gallery label affixed to the reverse of the mount.

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Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for £22,860

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London Auction 19 May 2023