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Wangechi Mutu (1973 - ) Three from the Bottle People Series.

Sold for $27,500 at Swann Auction Galleries on Oct 3, 2024.

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WANGECHI MUTU (1973 - ) Three from the Bottle People Series. Three mixed media and glass sculptures, 1997. Approximately 318x70 mm, 279x64 mm and 248x64 mm; 12½x2¾ inches, 11x2½ inches and 9¾x2½ inches. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection. Exhibited: (similar examples) Laurie Ann Farrell. Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, p. 143; fig 84a-c; Margo Norton and Vivian Crockett, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, pp. 20-23. This striking group of sculpture are scarce, early assemblages made by the artist - Wangechi Mutu began this series while completing her BFA at the Cooper Union in 1997. Mutu's Bottle People Series were first exhibited in a 2003-04 traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of African Art, New York. A larger group from the artist's collection were featured as her earliest works in her 2023 retrospective Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined at the New Museum, New York.

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