Sale 7062
London
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24 June 2005
Price realised
GBP 33,600
Estimate
Shirin Neshat (b. 1957) Identified (Women of Allah Series) ink on gelatin silver print 52½ x 36in. (133.3 x 91.5cm.) Executed in 1995, this work is from an edition of three
Provenance
Private Collection, San Francisco.
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Literature
Shirin Neshat, exh. cat., Vienna, Kunsthalle, 2000 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 59).
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Pre-Lot Text
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