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Lot 192: Kati Horna (Hungarian/Mexican 1912-2000)

Est: $10,000 USD - $15,000 USD
Christie'sNew York, NY, USMay 22, 2012

Item Overview

Description

Kati Horna (Hungarian/Mexican 1912-2000)
Doll's Head (Cabeza de muñeca)
signed and numbered 'Kati Horna 19476' (on the verso)
gelatin silver print
9 7/8 x 7 3/8 in. (25.2 x 20.3 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Literature

E. Billeter and J. Pierre, Exhibition catalogue, La femme et le surrealisme, Lausanne, Musèe cantonal des Beaux-Arts Laussane, 1987, p. 213. no. 8 (another example illustrated).
Cuartoscuro, No. 50, September-October, Mexico City, 2001, p. 39 (another example illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Women Surrealists in Mexico, Tokyo, The Tokyo Shimbun, 2003, p. 176, no. 136 (another example illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna, West Sussex, Pallant House Gallery, 2010, p. 78 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012, p. 106, no. 92 (illustrated).

Provenance

By descent from the artist.

Auction Details

Latin American Sale

by
Christie's
May 22, 2012, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US