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Lot 325: Nahum B. Zenil (Mexican b. 1947)

Est: $8,000 USD - $12,000 USDSold:
Christie'sNew York, NY, USNovember 15, 2011

Item Overview

Description

Nahum B. Zenil (Mexican b. 1947)
Duelo (Sorrow)
signed and dated 'Nahum B. Zenil 89' (lower left)
oil and ink on paper
20 5/8 x 28 1/8 in. (52.4 x 71.4 cm.)
Executed in 1989.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Nahum B. Zenil: Presente, October- November 1991, no. 58.
San Francisco, The Mexican Museum, Nahum B. Zenil: Witness to the Self, 16 March- 1 September 1996. This exhibition later travelled to Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, 18 April- 29 June 1997 and New York, New York University, Grey Art Gallery, 2 September- 1 November 1997.
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Here's Looking at You: Portraits From the Collection, August- December 1999.
Hartford, G. Fox Building, Strange, 11 February- 9 April 2006.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Nahum B. Zenil: Presente, Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, 1991, no. 58 (illustrated in color).
Exhibition catalogue, Nahum B. Zenil: Witness to the Self, San Francisco, The Mexican Museum, 1996, p. 24 (illustrated in color).

Provenance

Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City.
Tilton Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Auction Details

Latin American Paintings

by
Christie's
November 15, 2011, 12:00 AM EST

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