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CARRIE MAE WEEMS (1953 - )
Blue Black Boy
.
Triptych of three toned gelatin silver prints, with Prestype and frame, 1987-88. 406x1219 mm;
16x48 inches, including the frame. Edition of 3. From the
Colored People
series.
Provenance: P.P.O.W., NewYork, with the gallery label on the frame back; private collection, New
York (1988).
Another
Blue Black Boy
triptych is in the collection of theWhitney Museum of American Art, New
York. The Whitney’s triptych was shown in the recent traveling retrospective,
Carrie Mae Weems:
Three Decades of Photography andVideo
organized by the Frist Center for theVisual Arts, and including
the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. A detail of a triptych
was also reproduced on the front cover of the catalogue
Carrie Mae Weems
, and included in the
1993-95 National Museum of Women in the Arts traveling exhibition.The artist printed another
edition of 5 in 1997, but of a single image, and not as a triptych.
[40,000/60,000]