Details

Provenance

Leila Heller Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Turin, Castello di Rivoli, Shirin Neshat , January - May 2002, p. 84, illustrated in colour (ed. no unknown) New York, Museum of Modern Art, Without Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking , February - May 2006, p. 30, illustrated in colour (another example

Literature

Marco Noire Ed., Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah , Turin 1997, p. 32, illustrated in colour Ruth Noack, Matt Gerald, et al., Shirin Neshat , London 2000, p. 56, illustrated in colour Museum of Modern Art, Shirin Neshat, Speechless. 1996 , New York 2006, online (text) Arthur C. Danto and Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat , New York 2010, illustrated in colour on the cover Robin Wright, Two Iranian Artists and the Revolution, The New Yorker , September 15 2015, illustrated in colour, online Nell Frizzell, 'Interview: Shirin Neshat's best photograph: an Iranian woman with a gun in her hair', The Guardian , 5 January 2017, illustrated in colour Alina Cohen, 'How Shirin Neshat got her Start as an Artist', Artsy , 1 March 2019, n.p. illustrated in colour Public Delivery, Shirin Neshat & her Iconic Speechless Photo , February 2021, illustrated in colour

Catalog summary

Shirin Neshat b.1957 Speechless  signed, titled, and dated 1996 on a label affixed to the reverse; dedicated on the reverse ink on gelatin silver print 25.4 by 20.3 cm. 10 by 8 in. framed: 39.4 by 31.1 cm. 15 ½ by 12 ¼ in. Executed in 1996, this work is unique. Provenance Leila Heller Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited Turin, Castello di Rivoli, Shirin Neshat , January - May 2002, p. 84, illustrated in colour (ed. no unknown) New York, Museum of Modern Art, Without Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking , February - May 2006, p. 30, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited) Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum, Shirin Neshat: Facing History , May - September 2015 (another example exhibited) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East , February 2015 - January 2016 (another example exhibited) Graz, Neue Galerie Graz, Shirin Neshat: Women in Society , January - April 2018, n.p. illustrated in colour (another example exhibited) Literature Marco Noire Ed., Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah , Turin 1997, p. 32, illustrated in colour Ruth Noack, Matt Gerald, et al., Shirin Neshat , London 2000, p. 56, illustrated in colour Museum of Modern Art, Shirin Neshat, Speechless. 1996 , New York 2006, online (text) Arthur C. Danto and Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat , New York 2010, illustrated in colour on the cover Robin Wright, Two Iranian Artists and the Revolution, The New Yorker , September 15 2015, illustrated in colour, online Nell Frizzell, 'Interview: Shirin Neshat's best photograph: an Iranian woman with a gun in her hair', The Guardian , 5 January 2017, illustrated in colour Alina Cohen, 'How Shirin Neshat got her Start as an Artist', Artsy , 1 March 2019, n.p. illustrated in colour Public Delivery, Shirin Neshat & her Iconic Speechless Photo , February 2021, illustrated in colour