Lot 211
  • 211

GILBERT AND GEORGE | GB

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gilbert and George
  • GB
  • signed, titled and dated 2008
  • mixed media, in fifteen parts
  • overall: 190 by 377 cm. 74 7/8 by 148 1/2 in.

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 30 June 2011, Lot 240 (donated by the artists to benefit the Serpentine Sackler Gallery)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Berlin, Arndt & Partner; Paris, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac; London, White Cube; Brussels, Baronian-Francey; Salzburg, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac; Athens, Bernier/Eliades; and Naples, Alfonso Artiaco, Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures, June 2009 - February 2010, p. 42, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals a few superficial scuffs and scratches to the Plexiglas of the artist's frames. Further very close inspection a few minute printing inconsistencies to the extreme edges of some of the prints.
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