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Lot 63

Video Drawings: Baseball Series, 1974-76 (diptych)

Lot 63

Video Drawings: Baseball Series, 1974-76 (diptych)

Status:

Closed

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

Estimate$10,000 – $15,000

Status

Closed

Howardena Pindell

(American, b. 1943)

Video Drawings: Baseball Series, 1974-76 (diptych)

c-prints documenting drawing on acetate over television screen

each signed H. Pindell and dated (lower right)

5 1/2 x 7 1/2 and 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches.

From a Private Collection, Tucson Arizona

Provenance:

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1997

This work has not been examined out of the frame; both c-prints are float mounted with all edges visible; there is slight curling outward of the extreme corner tips in the lower left and right and upper right corners; otherwise this work appears to be in overall basic good and stable condition.
Framed: 19 x 13 3/4 inches.

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Video Drawings: Baseball Series, 1974-76 (diptych)

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