Lot 118
  • 118

ANISH KAPOOR | Wound (in four parts)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Anish Kapoor
  • Wound (in four parts)
  • signed, numbered 3/25 and inscribed (each)
  • i: paper-covered lined box with paper and fabricii: book hand-bound in white silk, containing photographs and hand-coloured facsimiles of drawingsiii: paper sculpture made from 267 tacked sheets of laser cut paperiv: sculpture made of 50 sheets of laser cut paper, the sheets are mounted onto a polished aluminium base and presented in a Perspex frame. 
  • 28 x 76,5 x 56,5; 11 x 30 1/8 x 22 1/4 in.
  • Executed in 2005, this work is number 3 from an edition of 25 plus one artist proof, published by Ivory Press ed., London.

Provenance

Private Collection, France

Exhibited

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Blood on Paper; 15 April – 29 June 2008 (other example)
London, Whitechapel Gallery, Artists' Books, 25 – 27 September 2009 (other example)
Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, TRA – Edge of becoming, 4 June – 28 November 2011 (other example)
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España (Spanish National Library), El libro como..., 27 September 2012 – 13 June 2013 (other example)
Madrid, Ivorypress, 'Books beyond Artists: Words and Images', 24 February 2015 – 9 May 2015 (other example)

Condition

The colours in the printed catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. The outside of the box presents wear marks and scattered tears in addition to darker handling marks. The silk-lined book book presents some faint handling marks. The paper sculpture presents a 40 cm scratch to the surface of the plexi and various scuffs and scratches to the surface. Please refer to the Contemporary department for further images.
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