Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm 

b. 1954

Selbstporträt als Gurken (Self-Portrait as a Pickle)

numbered 8 (along the lower edge)

cast and hand-painted acrylic resin with metal post on pedestal, in 2 parts

sculpture: 5 by 1½ by 1½ in. (12.7 by 3.8 by 3.8 cm.)

pedestal: 45¼ by 10⅝ by 10¼ in. (114.9 by 27 by 26 cm.)

overall: 49½ by 10⅝ by 10¼ in. (125.7 by 27 by 26 cm.)

Executed in 2008.