Three Vital Seals

Details

LINDY LEE (B. 1954)
Three Vital Seals
5 panels, signed, dated and numbered 'Lindy Lee/1997' (on the reverse)
acrylic and photocopy on Stonehenge paper on board
41 x 143 cm (overall)

Provenance

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 3 July 1999

Exhibited

Sydney, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Lindy Lee - Utmost Causation, 7 - 31 May 1997, cat. no. 8

Special notice

A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium on all lots in this sale.

Lot Essay

"Lee's appropriation of European portraits can be understood as an attempt to locate herself within the western art-historical canon
Her adoption of the copy as a modus operandi was a process of inscribing herself into that tradition... As each individual panel offers a different version of the original, so Lee suggests that identity differs according to time and context. It is a state characterised by moments of flux and uncertainty."
(B Genocchio & M Chui, Lindy Lee Sydney, 2001, p.16)

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