21 / Art & Design 
30 September 2020
Pierre Bismuth, Following the Right Hand of Louise Brooks in "Beauty Prize" - Image 1 of 1
21 / Art & Design 
Pierre Bismuth, Following the Right Hand of Louise Brooks in "Beauty Prize" - Image 1 of 1
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Pierre Bismuth b.1963

Following the Right Hand of Louise Brooks in "Beauty Prize"

2009
permanent marker on Plexiglas, digital print on Dibond 29½ h × 39¼ w in (75 × 100 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
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To create this works from the Following the Right Hand series, the artist projected a feature film on a Plexiglas sheet and followed the movement of the lead actresses right hand with a marker from the beginning of the film until the frame that seen behind the drawing appears.
Signed and dated to lower left ‘Pierre Bismuth 09’.
provenance: Team Gallery, New York | Acquired from the previous in 2009, Important New York Collection
literature: Pierre Bismuth: Things I Remember I Have Done, But Don't Remember Why I Did Them-Towards a Catalogue Raisonné, Bismuth, Pinto and Schafhausen, pg. 171, no. 1013

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