Lot 493
  • 493

Sarah Lucas

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Sarah Lucas
  • Where Does it All End?
  • wax and cigarette
  • 2 1/4 by 4 1/8 by 2 1/2 in. 5.7 by 10.5 by 6.4 cm.
  • Executed in 1994-1995, this work is from an edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Private Collection
Christie's, New York, May 12, 2010, lot 459
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Supersensible, March - April 1995 (another example exhibited)
Miami, The Sender Collection, Home Alone, November - December 2011

Literature

Jan van Adrichem, "Where Does It All End?," Parkett, No. 45, 1995, p. 86, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Brilliant! New Art from London, 1996, p. 64, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Sarah Lucas, 1996, pp. 13 and 47, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Frankfurt, Portikus, Sarah Lucas, 1996, front cover and p. 17, illustrated
Exh. Cat., South London Gallery, Minky Manky, 1997, n.p., illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Royal Academy of Art, Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, 1997, p. 117, illustrated
Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick, eds., Art at the Turn of the Millennium, Cologne, 1999, p. 327, no. 2, illustrated
Dick Price, Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade, London, 1999, p. 209, illustrated
Matthew Collings, Sarah Lucas, London, 2002, pp. 90-91, illustrated
Yilmaz Dziewior, Sarah Lucas Catalogue Raisonné 1989-2005, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2005, pp. 94-95, 97 and 126, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is some loose tobacco and dust located on the bottom of the frame. The cigarette is slightly yellowed from time staining, which is inherent to the medium. Framed under Plexiglas.
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