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Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Tim Noble and Sue Webster
- Toxic Schizophrenia
- 516 colored UFO reflector caps, lamps and holders, 6mm foamex, vinyl, and aerosol paint
- 102 1/2 by 78 3/4 by 2 3/4 in. 260.4 by 200 by 7 cm.
- Executed in 1997, this work is the artist's proof from an edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof.
Provenance
Modern Art, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Exhibited
London, 20 Rivington Street, Home Chance, 1997 (another example exhibited)
London, Chisenhale Gallery; Exeter, Spacex Gallery, The New Barbarians: Tim Noble and Sue Webster, February - May 1999, p. 27, illustrated (another example exhibited)
London, Chisenhale Gallery; Exeter, Spacex Gallery, The New Barbarians: Tim Noble and Sue Webster, February - May 1999, p. 27, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Literature
Robert Timms et.al., eds, Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade, London, 1999, p. 497, illustrated
Norman Rosenthal, Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, London, 2000, p. 168, illustrated
Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Wasted Youth, New York, 2006, pp. 19-22, illustrated
Norman Rosenthal, Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, London, 2000, p. 168, illustrated
Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Wasted Youth, New York, 2006, pp. 19-22, illustrated
Condition
This work is in very good condition and on good working order. There is very minor evidence of wear and handling.
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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.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
"He had been rolling up and down the incredible electric-sign gauntlet of Las Vegas' Strip, U.S. Route 91, where the neon and the par lamps--bubbling, spiraling, rocketing, and exploding in sunbursts ten stories high out in the middle of the desert--celebrate one-story casinos. He had been gambling and drinking and eating now and again at the buffet tables the casinos keep heaped with food day and night, but mostly hopping himself up with good old amphetamine, cooling himself down with meprobamate, then hooking down more alcohol, until now, after sixty hours, he was slipping into the symptoms of toxic schizophrenia." - Tom Wolfe (From, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline, New York, 1965)