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THBAbelardo Morell (Cuban/American, b. 1948)
Lot 1143
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Prints & Photographs features prints from Old Masters to Contemporary, and photographs spanning the medium’s history. Bid on iconic prints by Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Kelly, and Milton Avery; or build your photography collection. Bonhams Skinner bidsquare@bonhamsskinner.com
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Abelardo Morell (Cuban/American, b. 1948)
Book Stacks in a Very Big Space #1, 2001. Reportedly signed, titled, dated, and numbered "...1/5" on the verso. Gelatin silver print, sight size 47 1/4 x 60 1/4 in. (120.0 x 153.0 cm), matted, framed.
Condition: Not examined out of frame.
Provenance: 2002, Bonni Benrubi Gallery to a private collection.
N.B. In his 2002 monograph Book on Books, Morell's photographs are interspersed with quotations from artists and writers, contextualizing the photographs that they are paired with. Fittingly, Book Stacks in a Very Big Space is paired with the following quote by St?phane Mallarm?, the French poet who influenced many early 20th-century art movements: "Everything in the world exists to end up in a book." In this depiction of the Boston Public Library, it is not the historic 19th-century McKim building that is featured, but a seemingly anonymous view of the endless volumes housed within. Made from a high vantage point, the stacks are transformed into an illustration that highlights the massive quantity of literature and knowledge found on the printed page, creating a sublime interior that expands with no bounds.Condition
Condition: Frame dimensions 63 x 75 3/4 in.
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