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OLAFUR ELIASSON (B. 1967)

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14.10.2022 13:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 369 | OLAFUR ELIASSON (B. 1967)
OLAFUR ELIASSON (B. 1967)

Eye see you

signed with the artist’s stamp, titled, numbered and dated “Eye see you 2006 Ed. 25/30 Olafur Eliasson” (on the reverse of left arm)

stainless steel, aluminium, colour-effect filter glass and monofrequency bulb

89 1/3 x 53 x 32in. (226.7 x 134.6 x 81.3cm.)

Executed in 2006, this work is number twenty-five from an edition of thirty plus two artist's proofs





Provenance

Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen.

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 2007).

Anon. sale, Christie’s London, 7 March 2019, lot 218.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

O. Eliasson, A. Engberg-Pedersen and P. Ursprung, Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopaedia, Cologne 2008 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 484).

Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life, exh. cat., London, Tate Modern, 2019, pp. 24 and 227.



Exhibited

Stockholm, Jarla Partilager, Summer Solstice, 2008 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated, unpaged).

Düsseldorf, NRW - Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Olafur Eliasson: Eye See You, 2010 (another from the edition exhibited).

Düsseldorf, Langen Foundation, Olafur Eliasson: Works from the Boros Collection 1994-2015, 2015 (another from the edition exhibited, installation views illustrated in colour, pp. 95 and 122-123).

Vienna, Belvedere Museum, Olafur Eliasson: Baroque Baroque, 2015 (another from the edition exhibited, installation views illustrated, pp. 219-227).



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Post lot text

Another from the edition is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Artist:Olafur Eliasson (1967)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Aluminum, Glass, Steel
Art style:Contemporary art
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Denmark, Europe, Iceland
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