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Lot 132
  • 132

Marc Quinn

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Description

  • Marc Quinn
  • Sphinx Caryatid

  • inscribed with the signature, title and numbers 2/3 on the underside

  • painted bronze
  • 91 by 54 by 57cm.; 35 7/8 by 21 1/4 by 22 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 2006.

Provenance

Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, London, British Museum, Siren, 2008-2009, p. 7, illustration of another example in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Montreal, DHC/ART Fondation Pour L'Art Contemporain, Marc Quinn, 2007-2008, p. 19, illustration of another example in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is warmer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Upon close inspection, there are a few very light abrasions to the figure's underside on the reverse and an extremely light rub mark to the centre of the figure's back.
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Catalogue Note

"I was looking for the current incarnation of the Venus/Aphrodite archetype, and I looked at the various film stars and models. It was Kate's ubiquity and her muteness that made her seem to me more like a classical divinity than any of the others I considered; she is someone who never really speaks but who is continually spoken about; that makes her a very effective mirror of ourselves - our desires, our obsessions, our dreams. What's still more intriguing is the way that her and her image have parted company - she has one life and the image has a different one."

The artist in conversation with Will Self in: Exhibition Catalogue, London, The British Museum, Siren, 2009, p. 18