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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
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| Jul 3, 2025 | How many eggs, How many baskets, How many pictures; How many eggs, How many baskets, How man y pictures | 5 | Christie's | New York | |||
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43.2 x 33 cm (17 x 13 in)
black and white photograph on paper with printed text mount, in three parts
signed, inscribed, stamped with the artist"s name, titled, numbered and dated "HOW MANY EGGS Louise A Lawler 5/10 1990 PART 1 OF 3 PARTS"; signed again, inscribed again,stamped with the artist"s name again, titled again, numbered again and dated again "HOW MANY BASKETS Louise A Lawler 5/10 1990 PART 2 OF 3 PARTS"; signed again, inscribed again, stamped with the artist"s name again, titled again, numbered again and dated again "HOW MANY PICTURES Louise A. Lawler 5/10 1990 PART 3 OF 3 PARTS (on the reverse of each photograph)
Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2018
Louise D. Alden Thimble Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1990. How many eggs, How many baskets, How many pictures.
LOUISE LAWLER (B. 1947)
Louise D. Alden Thimble Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1990. How many eggs, How many baskets, How man y pictures.
signed, inscribed, stamped with the artist"s name, titled, numbered and dated "HOW MANY EGGS Louise A Lawler 5/10 1990 PART 1 OF 3 PARTS"; signed again, inscribed again,stamped with the artist"s name again, titled again, numbered again and dated again "HOW MANY BASKETS Louise A Lawler 5/10 1990 PART 2 OF 3 PARTS"; signed again, inscribed again, stamped with the artist"s name again, titled again, numbered again and dated again "HOW MANY PICTURES Louise A. Lawler 5/10 1990 PART 3 OF 3 PARTS (on the reverse of each photograph)
black and white photograph on paper with printed text mount, in three parts
sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.)
mat: 17 x 13 in. (43.2 x 33 cm.)
Executed in 1990. This work is number five from an edition of ten.
