Lot 48
  • 48

Maurizio Cattelan

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Description

  • Maurizio Cattelan
  • Hollywood
  • c-print face-mounted to plexiglass
  • 175.2 by 397.5cm.; 69 by 156 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 2001, this work is from an edition of 10, plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2002

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue: Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Form Follows Fiction, 2001-02, pp. 3-4, another example illustrated in colour

Francesco Bonami et al., Maurizio Cattelan, London 2003, p. 183, another example illustrated in colour

"Art and Its Markets: A Roundtable Discussion", ArtForum International, Vol. XLVI, April 2008, p. 297, no. 8, another example illustrated in colour

Exhibition Catalogue: New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Maurizio Cattelan: All, 2011, pp. 110-11, another example illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Visible only upon extremely close inspection in raking light, there are a few fine surface scratches isolated in places to the plexiglass. Further inspection reveals a tiny loss to the plexiglass to the extreme upper edge approximately 100cm in from the upper edge corner.
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