Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Musician Angel: Parallelogram, Square, 1979–1981
Drawing (pencil) · Paper
Phillips · Sep 28, 2022$25,200 ≈ £23,783 ≈ €26,346Sign up free to see price
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Vesper
Dorothea Rockburne (Canadian, 1929–2022) · 1987
$12,500 price realized incl. premium
≈ £9,049≈ €10,234
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- Medium
- Drawing (pencil) · Works on paper all drawing results →As published: “colored pencil on folded paper on rag board”
- Support
- Board
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed, titled and dated "Vesper Rockburne 87" lower edge
- Category
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 31 x 21 1/2 in. (78.7 x 54.6 cm.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- New Now (NY010118)
- Date
- February 28, 2018
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 80
- Estimate
- $5,000 – $7,000 (≈ £3,620 – £5,067) (≈ €4,094 – €5,731)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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