We’ve all been reading the condition report every day, and We, The People are in rough shape at the moment. But if I were bidding, I’d ask for a condition report for this fragment of We The People (detail), too. Because in one of the Sotheby’s photos, the Statue of Liberty’s face looks fine, and in the other it looks like there’s some delamination going on under the copper sheeting.
As far as these things go, this is a really great fragment, but ngl, Danh Vo’s project felt a lot better when it was more conceptual and less documentary.
16 May 2025 Lot 567, Danh Vo, We The People (Detail), 2011-16 [sothebys]