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October 16, 07:07 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Thomas Schütte

b. 1954


Großer Geist Nr. 6 

incised with the artist's signature and dated 1998 (on the heel of the right foot)

steel

294.6 by 134.6 by 81.3 cm. 116 by 53 by 32 in.

Executed in 1998.

Galleria Tucci Russo, Turin

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1999)

Christie's, New York, 12 November 2014, lot 74 (consigned by the above)

Skarstedt Gallery, New York 

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Muenster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Zeitgenössische SkulpturProjekte in Münster 1997, June 1997 – September 1998, n.p., illustrated (aluminium cast) 

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Eroi, May – October 2011, pp. 222-23, illustrated in colour

Julian Heynen, James Lingwood, and Angela Vettese, Thomas Schütte, London 1998, p. 104, illustrated in colour (installed in Zeitgenössische SkulpturProjekte, Westfälische Landesmuseum, Muenster, 1997-98, aluminium cast) 

Franco Fanelli, "Il Direttore Suona L'Eroica," Giornale dell'Arte, May 2011