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Gillian Wearing
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Gillian Wearing
- 'Signs that say what you want them to say and not signs that say what someone else wants you to say', 1994
- Chromogenic prints
Two cibachrome prints, flush-mounted to aluminium. Each with a gallery label bearing information about the work in facsimile affixed to the reverse. One framed and one unframed.
Provenance
Th.e. Gallery, Naples
Christie's London, Post-War and Contemporary Art, 20 October 2004, lot 198
Christie's London, Post-War and Contemporary Art, 20 October 2004, lot 198
Condition
These prints are in overall fair to good condition. With light scratches and handling marks throughout the sheet, only visible in raking light, and with dents to the paper along the edges. The print of the couple is unframed, and the print of the three boys is framed.
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."