Lot 40
  • 40

Gabriel Orozco

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gabriel Orozco
  • Atomists: Asprilla
  • computer generated plastic-coated print mounted on aluminium in three parts
  • Each: 198.1 by 97.1cm.; 78 by 38¼in.
  • Overall: 198.1 by 291.4cm.; 78 by 114¾in.
  • Executed in 1996, this work is number 2 from an edition of 3.

Provenance

Private Collection
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2003

Exhibited

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo; Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Gabriel Orozco, 2000-01, p. 148, illustrated in colour

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, London, Artangel at 50 St James's Street, Gabriel Orozco, Empty Club, 1996, pp. 46-7, illustration of another example in colour, p. 64, illustration of another example in installation 

Condition

The colours in the catalogue illustration are accurate. This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals a very thin and minor diagonal scratch underneath the left foot of the player on the right hand side and another diagonal scratch to the top of Asprilla's right foot and a soft thin horizontal rub-mark underneath his right arm. Close inspection reveals very minute lifting to the corner tip of the bottom left corner of the right panel.
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