ID 828547
Lot 240 | GILBERT & GEORGE (B. 1943 & B. 1942)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
War Dance
signed 'Gilbert + George' (lower centre); consecutively numbered '1-6' (on the artist's label on the backing board)
hand-dyed gelatin silver prints, in artist’s metal frames, in six parts
each: 29 3/4 x 25 3/4in. (75.5 x 65.5cm.)
overall: 59 1/2 x 77 3/8in. (151 x 196.5cm.)
Executed in 2008
Provenance
Baronian-Francey, Brussels.
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above in 2009).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
Brussels, Baronian-Francey, Gilbert & George Jack Freak Pictures, 2009-2011, pp. 5, 15 and 169, pl. 130 (illustrated in colour, p. 144). This exhibition later travelled to Athens, Bernier/Eliades and Hamburg, Deichtorhallen.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Gilbert & George Jack Freak Pictures, 2010-2011.
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| Artist: | Gilbert & George (XX century) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Artist: | Gilbert & George (XX century) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Address of auction |
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