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Lot 313
  • 313

Gilbert and George

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gilbert and George
  • The Red Sculpture Album
  • signed and numbered 50/100 on the inside front page

  • eleven bound colour photographs
  • each image: 30.3 by 38cm.; 12 by 15in.
  • overall: 39 by 50.8 by 3.3cm.; 15 3/8 by 20 by 1 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1975.

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1977

Exhibited

New York, Wolff Gallery, Group Show, 1989

Literature

Rudi Fuchs, Gilbert and George: The Complete Pictures, 1971-2005, Vol. II, London 2007, p. 1227

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality of the photographs is much warmer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is a very light rub mark at the centre-left of the album's front cover.
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