Lot 110
  • 110

Christian Marclay

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Christian Marclay
  • Click Click
  • signed on the reverse; signed, titled and numbered 3/5 on a label affixed to the backing board
  • pigment print on Arches paper, in artist's frame
  • framed: 112 by 145 cm. 44 1/8 by 57 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 2006, this work is number 3 from an edition of 5.

Provenance

White Cube, London

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

London, White Cube, Christian Marclay: Crossfire, February - March 2007, p. 21, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Christian Marclay: Festival, July - September 2010, p. 78, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown) 

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals some scuffs and specks of loss to the extreme edges of the frame.
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Catalogue Note

“(...) Marclay, who was born in California in 1955, loves old US comics and some of these sounds are scissored straight from the pages of cartoons, while others appear to relate very precisely to the medium of painting itself. Plop, Splat, Splish, Glop, the sounds of paint spattering across a canvas invoke Jack the Dripper and the other action painters working the pigment round the surface. Marclay is bridging the gap between Abstract Expressionism and Pop art” (Laura Cumming, 'Christian Marclay: Review', The Guardian, 1 February 2015, online).