Lot 127
  • 127

Rosemarie Trockel

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Rosemarie Trockel
  • Divided We Laugh
  • signed and dated 07 on the reverse
  • oil and mixed media collage in artist's frame
  • 67.5 by 57 by 3.8cm.; 26 1/2 by 22 1/2 by 1 1/2 in.

Condition

Colour: The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. The illustration fails to accurately convey the plexi sheet mounted to the front of the frame. Condition: There are minor chips to the wood frame, only visible upon close inspection, original to the work's execution. The bottom two comers of the photographic image are lifting slightly.
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Catalogue Note

In 1988 the ICA mounted the first major presentation in a British
public institution by the German artist Rosemarie Trockel. The
exhibition brought together a selection of works by the artist,
including a number of pieces made with knitted fabric, or which
appropriated domestic objects associated with femininity.

Trockel's contribution to the ICA's 60th anniversary auction is the
collage Divided We Laugh, 2006. The artist's collages feature
photographs, fabric and paint, which are used in a much more
expressive way than in many of her other works, making them more
personal and emotive. Like these other works, Trockel's collages
often contain references to the body, and Divided We Laugh features
a photograph of a mask, which has been overlaid with a painted eye
and a collaged pair of lips.