Lot 262
  • 262

Bill Viola

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Bill Viola
  • Mater
  • colour video diptych on two freestanding hinged LCD flat panels 
  • 40.7 by 65.5 by 4 cm. 16 by 25 3/4 by 1 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 2001, this work is number 5 from an edition of 5, plus 1 artist's proof.

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Private Collection, Europe
Christie's, London, 8 February 2006, Lot 58
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum; London, The National Gallery, Bill Viola: The Passions, January 2003 - January 2004, p. 272, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catlaogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good and working condition. Extremely close inspection reveals a few tiny specks of media in isolated places to the extreme edges and a hairline scratch to the centre of the right overturn edge.
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