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Marie-Jo Lafontaine

Antwerp 1950 – lives in Brussels

„Tina“. 1988

4-part work: photograph on aluminium under plexiglass, mounted into wooden frame, and oil on 3 panels, thereof one with bronze letters. 72,7 x 273 cm (28 ⅝ x 107 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Marie-Jo Lafontaine. „Tina“. 1988.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 15,000

USD 13,300

 

- 20,000

Sold for:

12,200 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 193-198

Post-War and Contemporary Art, Friday, 01.06.2012

Information

4-part work: photograph on aluminium under plexiglass, mounted into wooden frame, and oil on 3 panels, thereof one with bronze letters. 72,7 x 273 cm (28 ⅝ x 107 ½ in.). Each titled and inscribed with sequence number on the reverse with felt-tip pen, plate 1 also inscribed with hanging instructions, plate 4 signed and dated again TINA 1/4 - Tina 4/4 Marie-Jo Lafontaine 1988. (photograph: Edward Weston: Tina Modotti lying on the Azotea, Redondo Beach, CA, USA. 1923). On the reverse a label of Heiner Bastian Fine Art, Berlin. The photograph lower right with slight brownish and light grey discoloration.

Exhibition catatalogue: Marie-Jo Lafontaine. Göppingen, Städtische Galerie, 1990/91, colour ill. p. 12 (not exhibited)

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