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Nov. 29, 2023
SIGNED ORIGINAL WILLIE COLE LITHOGRAPH
Est: $300 - $400
WILLIE COLE (American b. 1955) Pressed Iron Blossom No. 2 5-color lithograph Signed lower right and editioned 3/90 lower left Sheet size 22.1 inches x 30 inches, unframed SHIPPING NOTICE: Jackson's is your sole and only source for one stop packing and shipping. With over 50 years of experience, our professional, affordable and efficient in-house shipping department will be happy to provide you a fair and reasonable shipping quote on this lot. Simply email us before the auction for a quick quote: [email protected] or call 1-800-665-6743. Jackson's can expertly pack and ship to meet any of your needs. To ensure quality control Jackson's DOES NOT release to third party shippers.
Jackson's International
Oct. 19, 2023
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Steamed Man.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Steamed Man. Lithograph on BFK Rives paper, 2018. 486x673 mm; 19 1/8x26 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/40 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Segura Art Studios, Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture, with the blind stamp lower right.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 19, 2023
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Scorch Nation Spirit.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Scorch Nation Spirit. Etching and aquatint on Arches paper, 2018. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 6/40 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Segura Art Studios, Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture, with the blind stamp lower right.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 14, 2023
Willie Cole, American b. 1955, The Ogun Sisters
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Willie Cole American, b. 1955 The Ogun Sisters 2012 serigraph and solar plate on BFK Rives paper 30 x 22 inches signed, titled, dated and numbered, 22/55 Published by Raven Fine Art Editions; Curlee Raven Holton, master printer. Willie Cole was born in New Jersey in 1955. He studied at the The School of Visual Arts, New York and the Art Students League. His work combines visual references of African and African American imagery with Dada-type âreadymadesâ, such as irons, hair dryers, matches and lawn jockeys. His work has been exhibited at the Montclair Art Museum (2006), University of Wyoming Art Museum (2006), the Tampa Museum of Art (2004), Miami Art Museum (2001), Bronx Museum of the Arts (2001) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1998). Coleâs, The Ogun Sisters, addresses domestic roles associated with black women: the composition is a mirror image, insinuating repetition and, along with the faces of the f igure(s) being obscured by a mask, loss of identity. The superimposed symbol in the foreground (below) represents the most basic atom of the element iron (26 protons and 30 neutrons), but more than just doubling up on the theme of iron, it evokes the notion of fundamentalism. The symbol (above) represents Ogun, a warrior spirit found in several African religions, and the god of metal (iron). The Ogun Sisters is found in a number of important museum collections.
Black Art Auction
Jun. 21, 2023
Abundance 2000
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Willie Cole b. 1955 Abundance 2000 porcelain and metal 16½ by 19½ by 12 in. 41.9 by 49.5 by 30.5 cm. Executed in 2000.
Sotheby's
Jun. 08, 2023
Willie Cole (b. 1955): Untitled
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Scorched paper, 1993, signed 'W Cole' and dated lower right. 14 x 11 1/2 in. (sheet), unframed.
Stair
May. 20, 2023
Willie Cole, b. 1955, American Domestic
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Willie Cole b. 1955 American Domestic 2016 serigraph, collage, and digital print 34 x 28 inches (image) 37 x 31 inches (sheet) signed, dated, titled, numbered 21/30
Black Art Auction
May. 20, 2023
Willie Cole, b. 1955, Ogun Sisters
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Willie Cole b. 1955 Ogun Sisters 2012 serigraph and solar plate 30 x 22 inches signed, titled, dated and numbered 22/55. Published by Raven Fine Art Editions; Curlee Raven Holton, master printer. Willie Cole was born in New Jersey in 1955. He studied at the The School of Visual Arts, New York and the Art Students League. His work combines visual references of African and African American imagery with Dada-type âreadymadesâ, such as irons, hair dryers, matches and lawn jockeys. His work has been exhibited at the Montclair Art Museum (2006), University of Wyoming Art Museum (2006), the Tampa Museum of Art (2004), Miami Art Museum (2001), Bronx Museum of the Arts (2001) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1998). Coleâs, The Ogun Sisters, addresses domestic roles associated with black women: the composition is a mirror image, insinuating repetition and, along with the faces of the f igure(s) being obscured by a mask, loss of identity. The superimposed symbol in the foreground (below) represents the most basic atom of the element iron (26 protons and 30 neutrons), but more than just doubling up on the theme of iron, it evokes the notion of fundamentalism. The symbol (above) represents Ogun, a warrior spirit found in several African religions, and the god of metal (iron). The Ogun Sisters is found in a number of important museum collections.
Black Art Auction
May. 20, 2023
Willie Cole, b. 1955, Pressed Iron Blossom no. 2
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Willie Cole b. 1955 Pressed Iron Blossom no. 2 2006 color lithograph 22 x 30 inches signed and numbered 26/90 published by Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Black Art Auction
May. 18, 2023
WILLIE COLE (b. 1955) House and Field House—cowrie shells and wood on plast
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
WILLIE COLE (b. 1955) House and Field House—cowrie shells and wood on plaster Field—nails, feathers, steel and raffia on plaster House: 26 x 18 x 10 in. (66 x 45.7 x 25.4 cm.) Field: 28 3/4 x 19 x 10 in (73 x 48.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Christie's
Apr. 06, 2023
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Quick as a Wink.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Quick as a Wink. Inkjet print, 2002. 1194x889 mm; 47x35 inches (sheet). Signed and numbered 10/12 in pencil, lower edge. Printed by Quality House Graphics, New York. Published by Alexander and Bonin, New York, and the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ. Another impression of this print is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 06, 2023
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Sole Plates.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Sole Plates. Lithograph, 2018, 508x406 mm; 20x16 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 2/20 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Raven Fine Art Editions, Easton, PA, with the blindstamp lower right.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 06, 2023
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Untitled.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Untitled. Color lithograph, 2018, 581x778 mm; 22 7/8x30 5/8inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 2/24 in pencil, lower edge.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 03, 2022
Willie Cole (American, born 1955) Pressed Iron Blossom No. 2
Est: $400 - $600
Lithograph. Signed (lower right) and numbered 31/90. Published by Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Cottone Auctions
Oct. 06, 2022
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Home Mark.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Home Mark. Spit bite and aquatint on Rives BFK paper, 2011. 609x482 mm; 24x19 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 16. Signed, dated, inscribed "AP" and numbered 2/2 in pencil, lower margin.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 06, 2022
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) ¡No mas!
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) ¡No mas! Etching, aquatint and chine collé on Rives BFK paper, 2011. 673x514 mm; 26 1/2x20 3/8 inches, full margins. Printer's proof, aside from the edition of 8. Signed, dated, inscribed "PP" and numbered 1/2 in pencil, lower margin. Another impression is the collection of the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 31, 2022
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Men of Iron.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Men of Iron. Digital print with ultra-chrome archival inks on Epson 9600, 2004. 520x698 mm; 20 1/2x27 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/30 in pencil, lower margin. Printed at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers University. Published by Alexander and Bonin, New York. On the cusp of his fiftieth birthday, Willie Cole used his body for a duo of 2004 prints; Silex Male. Ritual and Sunbeam Male. Ceremonial. A third print, Men of Iron, united and compacted the paired figures of the previous two.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 07, 2021
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) The Ogun Sisters.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) The Ogun Sisters. Color screenprint with solar plates and glazing on BFK Rives, 2012. 762x562 mm; 30x22 1/4 inches. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 75. Signed, titled, dated, numbered 8/20 and inscribed "A/P" in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by The Experimental Print Institute, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, in collaboration with Hummingbird Press Editions, Massachusetts.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 16, 2021
Willie Cole American, b. 1955 Gas Snakes, 1992
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Willie Cole American, b. 1955 Gas Snakes, 1992 Gas pump nozzles, rubber hose and rebar in four parts 65 x 24 x 27 inches (165.1 x 60.1 x 68.6 cm) Provenance: Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY Acquired by the present owner from the above C
Doyle New York
Jun. 16, 2021
COLE, WILLIE (b. 1955) No or Yes
Est: $700 - $1,000
COLE, WILLIE (b. 1955) No or Yes 1998. C-type print, 37 7/8 x 17 1/4 inches (963 x 438 mm), Initialed WC and numbered 1/5 from the edition of 5. With Alexander and Bonin, New York C
Doyle New York
Apr. 22, 2021
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Scorch Nation Spirit.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Scorch Nation Spirit. Etching and aquatint on Arches paper, 2018. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 26/40 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Segura Art Studios, Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture, with the blind stamp lower right.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 22, 2021
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Steamed Man.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) Steamed Man. Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, 2018. 486x673 mm; 19 1/8x26 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 40. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Segura Art Studios, Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture, with the blind stamp lower right.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 10, 2020
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) The Ogun Sisters.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
WILLIE COLE (1955 - ) The Ogun Sisters. Color screenprint with solar plates and glazing on BFK Rives, 2012. 762x562 mm; 30x22 1/8 inches (sheet). Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 75. Signed, titled, dated, numbered 9/20 and inscribed "A/P" in pencil, lower margin. Published by The Experimental Print Institute, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, in collaboration with Hummingbird Press Editions, Massachusetts. Provenance: acquired from Hummingbird Press, Chicago; private collection, Illinois. Cole describes this recent print, bordered by steam iron impressions, as 'a collection of symbols.' The artistexplains 'the top symbol is the Haitian veve [sign] for oGUN, the Yoruba deity whose element is iron. The bottom symbol represents the chemical element iron as a mix of protons and neutrons.' Cole's central pair of uniformed, ironing women each have a same circle above their hearts representing the proton and neutron mixture of iron shown enlarged below. The image of the ironing woman derives from an archival photo dating from the early 1950s of a single female student at Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youths in Bordentown, New Jersey, where Cole's aunt was a student. This coed, state-funded boarding school, which closed in 1955, was a northern version of Alabama's famed Tuskegee institute. The heads of the ironing women are classic masks of the Dan people, based in the central west coast of Africa in what are now Liberia and the Ivory Coast. By duplicating and flipping the photo of the ironing woman, Cole creates a third figure in the middle, which he sees as 'medical, like he's laid out on the table, all dressed in white and being resuscitated by the heat from their irons.'
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 01, 2020
WILLIE COLE SWITCH DOCTORS
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
WILLIE COLE (American b. 1955-) Switch Doctors - 1992 Mixed Media Signed and dated on verso 26 inches x 45 inches x 3 inches (66 x 114.3 x 7.6 cm) Provenance: Acquired by the consignor directly from Peter Miller Gallery Ltd., Chicago, Illinois, June 2, 1993, with copy of original receipt. SHIPPING NOTICE: Jackson's is your sole and only source for one stop packing and shipping. With over 50 years of experience, our professional, affordable and efficient in-house shipping department will be happy to provide you a fair and reasonable shipping quote on this lot. Simply email us before the auction for a quick quote: [email protected] or call 1-800-665-6743. Jackson's can expertly pack and ship to meet any of your needs. To ensure quality control Jackson's DOES NOT release to third party shippers.
Jackson's International