Fine Prints and Photography Auction

March 10, 2015

LOT 206

Lot 206

Scarlett Hooft Graafland (1973- )

Scarlett Hooft Graafland (1973- )
Lot 206 Details
Scarlett Hooft Graafland (1973- ), Dutch

POLAR BEAR, IGOOLIK SERIES, CANADA, 2007-2008

Chromogenic print; signed in ink to label affixed to mount verso. Printed in 2011.
Sheet 20" x 24" — 50.8 x 61 cm.

Estimate $2,000-$3,000

Realised: $1,920
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Provenance:

Donated by the artist;
Proceeds to benefit the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

Note:

The artist comments: “Sometimes I just get an idea, and if I think it’s really good then I have to make it happen, whatever it takes”.

Her photographs of majestic landscapes – in China, on the salt flats of Bolivia or the Arctic plains of northern Canada, as depicted here with her addition of unexpected elements, the landscape takes on a new dimension where “Two bare legs poke out from under a polar bear skin in the icy cold of the polar circle...”

CONDITION DETAILS

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