David Altmejd

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Phillips London, 11 April 2018, lot 189 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris; Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Flux, October 2014 - September2015

"The facelessness makes the head function as a symbol. If you take the face off the head, you are left with a symbol, and then the face makes the effect more intricate and less abstract. The faceless head is kind of an abstract object. I don’t have a plan when I work on a head. I’m just confronted."

-David Altmejd, quoted in Harry Thorne, "David Altmejd: I believe in the power that art has to generate meaning," Studio International, 28 January 2015 (online)