Lot 191
  • 191

Jake & Dinos Chapman

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jake & Dinos Chapman
  • Helter-Skelter-Alka-Seltzer
  • fibreglass, plastic and mixed media
  • 170 by 70 by 70 cm. 66 7/8 by 27 5/8 by 27 5/8 in.
  • Executed in 2014.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the present owner

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the grey tends more towards black in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection reveals a few very faint and superficial handling marks to the base.
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Catalogue Note

"When our sculptures work they achieve the position of reducing the viewer to a state of absolute moral panic ... they're completely troublesome objects."
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Cited in: Douglas Fogle, 'A Scatological Aesthetic for the Tired of Seeing', in: Exh. Cat., London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chapmanworld, 1996, n.p.