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Lot 225
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Maurizio Cattelan

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Description

  • Maurizio Cattelan
  • Untitled
  • signed
  • chromogenic print mounted on Plexiglas
  • 179 by 223.5cm.; 70 1/2 by 88in.
  • Executed in 1998, this work is from an edition of 10.

Provenance

Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Maurizio Cattelan: All, 2011-2012, p. 87, no. 27, illustrated in colour

Literature

Giorgio Verzotti, Maurizio Cattelan, Milan 1999, p.23, illustration of another example in colour
Francesco Bonomi, Nancy Spector, Barbara Vanderlinden and Masimiliano Gioni, Maurizio Cattelan, London 2000, p. 133, illustration of another example in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Maurizio Cattelan, 1999, illustration of another example in colour (on the front cover)

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall totality is brighter and more vibrant in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

"Cattelan interpreted Picasso's institutional profile as that of a mascot...he hired an actor to masquerade as the artist, complete with signature striped T-shirt and an exaggeratedly large moulded head mask. During the run of the show this Picasso greeted crowds in the lobby, shook hands and posed for photographs. Sometimes he would lounge on benches and flirt with visitors." 

Nancy Spector, Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Maurizo Cattelan: All , 2011, pp. 87-88