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URS FISCHER (B. 1973)

Lot 770
20.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1508260
Lot 770 | URS FISCHER (B. 1973)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
URS FISCHER (B. 1973)
Untitled
wax, pigment, wick, brick and metal rod
66 7/8 x 18 1/8 x 11 3/8 in. (170 x 46 x 29 cm.)
Executed in 2001. This work is number two from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.




Provenance

Sadie Coles HQ, London
Private collection, 2003
Anon sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 2010, lot 1
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips, New York, 14 May 2015, lot 5
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

Urs Fischer: Shovel in a Hole, exh. cat., New York, New Museum, 2009, p. 51 (another example illustrated).
Urs Fischer, exh. cat., Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013, pp. 184-185 and 530 (another example illustrated).
G. Jones and B. Ruf, Good Smell/Make-Up Tree, Zurich, 2004, p. 81.



Exhibited

Zurich, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Mastering the Complaint, August-October 2001 (another example exhibited).
Zurich, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Breathing the Water, February-March 2003 (another example exhibited).
London, Hayward Gallery, The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, June-September 2014, pp. 83-84 (another example exhibited and illustrated).



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