Anish Kapoor

Lisson Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005

Brussels, Museé de Cinquantenaire, Intersection #2, March - April 2010 (another example exhibited)

This work is in good condition overall. The structure is stable. There is light wear with associated minor pigment losses along the bottom edge of the work that touches the wall. Under close inspection there are scattered faint surface scratches throughout and a few areas of pinpoint white surface accretions. Under close inspection there is evidence of some minor surface irregularities at the top turning edge, likely inherent to the artist’s working method.
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"One of the ways color has been used in art since the eighteenth century is to move, as in Turner, from color to light. My tendency is to go from color to darkness. Red has a very powerful blackness. This overt color, this open and visually beckoning color, also associates itself with a dark interior world. And that's the real reason I'm interested in it. Is that Indian? I don't know that it matters." Anish Kapoor