Lot 188
  • 188

JENNY HOLZER | When There is No Safe Place to Sleep

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jenny Holzer
  • When There is No Safe Place to Sleep
  • incised with the artist's signature and numbered 2/20 on the underside
  • verde antique marble
  • 43.5 by 74.3 by 42.2 cm. 17 1/8 by 29 1/4 by 16 5/8 in.
  • Executed in 1997, this work is number 2 from an edition of 20.

Provenance

Cheim & Read, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1999)
Sotheby's, New York, 25 September 2013, Lot 115
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection in raking light reveals some superficial scratches and some tiny media accretions in isolated places throughout.
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Catalogue Note

“Critics often see Holzer’s practice as stemming from two intertwined trajectories in art history. First, a direct precedent is the work of Joseph Kosuth, whose art is driven by philosophy and the texts that inform it. Holzer’s emphasis on text rather than objects marked a watershed in conceptual art. The other inspiration is feminism and an increased awareness of text and voice as tools of patrimonial control” (Anon., ‘Jenny Holzer’, The Broad, online).