Lot 55
  • 55

Gilbert and George

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 USD
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Description

  • Gilbert and George
  • We Are
  • mixed media in 32 parts

  • 98 x 158 in. 248.9 x 401.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1985.

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1985

Exhibited

New York, Sonnabend Gallery, New Moral Works, 1985

Literature

Carter Ratcliff, Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971 - 1985, New York, 1986, p. 254, illustrated in color
Wolf Jahn, The Art of Gilbert & George or an Aesthetic of Existence, New York, 1989, p. 405, illustrated in color (1985 Sonnabend Gallery exhibition photograph)
Rudi Fuchs, Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971 - 2005, Volume I, London, 2007, p. 522, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Each image is framed in a black metal strip frame behind glass. In the upper left panel in the top row, there are white tide areas in the red that appear to be dye anomalies located along the bottom edge: 2 small 1/16 to ¼ in. areas in the lower left corner and another extending 1 inch up from the bottom edge and 4 ¾ - 6 ¼ in. from the right. In the far left panel of the second row from the top, there is a bluish curve about 1 in. thick located in the white finger along the bottom edge, 5 – 6 ¾ inches from the right.
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