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"Tapisseries du Vent" Sheila Hicks, 1973 Gold Weaving, Textile Tapestry

1973

$150,000
£112,026.45
€129,990.02
CA$207,751.05
A$232,887.27
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Sheila Hicks Tapisseries du Vent, 1973 Signed on the reverse Synthetic raffia weaving with Lucite rods 56" high x 34ʺ wide x 6ʺ deep Sheila Hicks was born in Hastings, Nebraska, and graduated from Yale University with a BFA and an MFA. She won a Fulbright fellowship in 1957-58 to paint in Chile. While in South America she acquired her passion in dealing with textiles. She currently splits her time between her Paris studio and New York, having established workshops in Mexico, Chile, and South Africa, as well as working in Morocco and India. ​ Hicks has exhibited globally in both solo and group shows. She was included in the 2017 Venice Biennale, 2014 Whitney Biennial in New York, the 2012 São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. Recent solo exhibitions include "Pêcher dans La Rivière" at the Alison Jacques Gallery in London (2013), "Lignes de Vie" at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2018, Free Threads 1954-2017 Museo Amparo, Mexico Hicks, Sheila: 50 Years made its debut at the Addison Gallery of American Art before visiting the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago, and solo exhibitions at the Seoul Art Center in Korea and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem all own pieces of Hicks' art.
  • Creator:
    Sheila Hicks (1934, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1973
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 56 in (142.24 cm)Width: 34 in (86.36 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1841215946222

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