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    • SHIRIN NESHAT (B. 1957)
    Lot 17

    SHIRIN NESHAT (B. 1957)

    I am its Secret

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    USD 23,750

    Estimate

    USD 6,000 - USD 8,000

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    SHIRIN NESHAT (B. 1957)
    I am its Secret
    signed, titled and dated '"I am its secret" 1993 Shirin Neshat' (on the reverse)
    chromogenic print
    19½ x 13 in. (49.5 x 33 cm.)
    Executed in 1993. This work is from an edition of two hundred and fifty.

    Provenance

    Galerie Serge Plantureux, Paris

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Shirin Neshat: Woman of Allah, exh. cat., Vancouver, Artspeak Gallery, 1997, title page and p. 17.


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