Mindy Shapero
The one eye that saw everything before it was sent to the circle traps, it rotates in order to maintain all secrets but once it stops they begin to slip out
Estimate: 400 - 600 GBP
Price realised: 688 GBP
Price realised: 688 GBP
Description
acrylic and silver leaf on paper
82 5/8 x 73 7/8in. (210 x 187.7cm.)
Executed in 2006
Los Angeles-based artist Mindy Shapero fuses mythology and spirituality into her works. Creating vibrant and mesmerizing narratives, she transports the viewer into a fantastical and dynamic world. In The one eye that saw everything before it was sent to the circle traps, it rotates in order to maintain all secrets but once it stops they begin to slip out, hypnotic circles of silver-leaf decrease in size from the outer edge and culminate at the centre, guiding the viewer’s attention to a single
CRG Gallery, New York. | Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.
82 5/8 x 73 7/8in. (210 x 187.7cm.)
Executed in 2006
Los Angeles-based artist Mindy Shapero fuses mythology and spirituality into her works. Creating vibrant and mesmerizing narratives, she transports the viewer into a fantastical and dynamic world. In The one eye that saw everything before it was sent to the circle traps, it rotates in order to maintain all secrets but once it stops they begin to slip out, hypnotic circles of silver-leaf decrease in size from the outer edge and culminate at the centre, guiding the viewer’s attention to a single
CRG Gallery, New York. | Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.
Upper estimated price slightly exceeded
The work The one eye that saw everything before it was sent to the circle traps, it rotates in order to maintain all secrets but once it stops they begin to slip out by Mindy Shapero was sold in the on paper | online auction at Christies in London in September 2017. Here, the upper estimate of GBP 600.00 was slightly exceeded - the artwork found a new owner for GBP 687.50 (€ 779.98). However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Mindy Shapero - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work It's the same place that we were when there was nothing anywhere except this time there is nothing everywhere., which sold at auction in March last year for EUR 1,980.00.
Oberer Schätzpreis leicht übertroffen
Die Arbeit The one eye that saw everything before it was sent to the circle traps, it rotates in order to maintain all secrets but once it stops they begin to slip out von Mindy Shapero wurde im September 2017 in der Auktion on paper | online bei Christies in London versteigert. Dabei wurde der obere Schätzpreis von GBP 600,00 leicht übertroffen – das Kunstwerk fand für GBP 687,50 (€ 779,98) einen neuen Besitzer. Für andere Arbeiten von Mindy Shapero mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit It's the same place that we were when there was nothing anywhere except this time there is nothing everywhere. beobachtet, die im März letzten Jahres für EUR 1.980,00 versteigert wurde.
Mindy Shapero - Auction history
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