Lot 10
  • 10

Tim Noble & Sue Webster

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Tim Noble & Sue Webster
  • $
  • 204 ice white turbo reflector caps, lamps, plastic bulb covers,  daisy washers, lightbulbs, lacquered brass and electronic sequencer (three-channel shimmer effect)

  • 181.8 by 133.5 by 24.2cm.
  • 71 1/2 by 55 5/8 by 9 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 2001, this work is from an edition of 5.

Provenance

Modern Art, London
Private Collection, New York
Sale: Phillips de Pury & Company, London, Contemporary Art including Design Art, 14 October 2006, Lot 17
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, 2004, illustration of another example in colour
Kate Farrington, 'Tim Noble & Sue Webster', NYArts Magazine, 2004, vol. 9, no. 11/12
Christopher Millis, 'Art Junkies: Barry McGee and Noble & Webster take in the trash', The Boston Phoenix, 2004, n.p.
Exhibition Catalogue, Dresden, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Die Zehn Gebote: Politik - Moral - Gelsellschaft, 2004-05, illustration of another example in colour

Condition

The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the illustration fails to convey the sequenced flashing of the light bulbs in the original. This work is in very good condition. There are a few minor losses to the gold plating scattered at intervals to the side edges, and one small loss towards the right of the curved bottom edge of the 'S' shape.
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