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描述
- Raqib Shaw
- 《皮拉内西三聯作-貪婪王朝的衰敗》
- 款識:藝術家簽名(各幅背面)
- 複合媒材紙本,裱於鋁板,藝術家自選畫框
- (i) 86.3 x 86.3 公分;34 x 34 英寸;(ii) 86.3 x 233.7 公分;34 x 92 英寸;(iii) 86.3 x 86.3 公分;34 x 34 英寸
- 2008年作
來源
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
展覽
London, Boswall House, House of the Nobleman: The Return, 2011
Condition
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
拍品資料及來源
The title of the present triptych refers to Giovanni Batista Piranesi (1720-1778), the eighteenth-century Italian print-maker famous for his vedute of Rome and depictions of the city’s classical ruins. His publication of Le Antichità Romane de' tempo della prima Repubblica e dei primi imperatori (Roman Antiquities of the Time of the First Republic and the First Emperors) garnered widespread acclaim and went on to deeply influence the contemporaneous work of Claude Lorraine and Salvatore Rosa, whose evocation of an Arcadian past fettered with crumbling ruins engendered the nascent beginnings of Neo-classicism and later Romanticism. Piranesi’s reminiscence of a golden age in decline is taken on and subverted in Shaw’s triptych. Instead of a melancholic rumination on past opulence, Shaw’s work hedonistically revels in the breakdown; a once ostentatious kingdom, now in ruins, is overrun with immoral pandemonium. The fall of the Roman Empire is re-imagined and satirised by Shaw as a fantastical tableau of exotic depravity.
Inspired by a wealth of tradition, Shaw’s work invokes the luxurious intricacy of Japanese Byobu screens; a treatment of nature and landscape evocative of Hokusai prints; a sprawling patternation synonymous with traditional Kashmiri shawls; and a bright colouration and flattened perspective characteristic of fifteenth and sixteenth-century Persian miniatures; all of which are grounded within a greater survey of western art history. In The Piranesi Triptych – The Gradual Decline of the Kingdom of Greed, Hieronymus Bosch and Claude Lorrain meet a history of oriental tradition to deliver a work of sparkling ingenuity and painterly magnificence.