Photo © Bonhams — view this lot on Bonhams ↗Untitled, 2001
Mixed media · Paper
Bonhams · May 15, 2025$133,850 ≈ £100,806 ≈ €119,669Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
Forging Freedoms
Kara Walker (American, b. 1969) · 1996
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $40,000 – $60,000 (≈ £33,789 – £50,684) (≈ €37,933 – €56,899)
Offered at Phillips and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Drawing (charcoal) · Works on paper all drawing results →As published: “charcoal on cut paper”
- Support
- Paper
- Category
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 142.2 x 121.9 cm (55 7/8 x 47 7/8 in.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- New Now (NY010123)
- Date
- March 8, 2023
- Location
- New York, United States
- Lot
- 97
- Estimate
- $40,000 – $60,000 (≈ £33,789 – £50,684) (≈ €37,933 – €56,899)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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