Lot 121
  • 121

Matthew Barney

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Matthew Barney
  • Cremaster 5: The Menagerie of the Queen of Chain
  • c-print in cast epoxy
  • 69.2 by 59 cm. 27 1/4 by 23 1/4 in.
  • Executed in 1996, this work is number 28 from an edition of 30.

Provenance

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York 

11 Duke Street Limited, London

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999

Exhibited

Frankfurt, Portikus, Cremaster 5, June - August 1997, n.p., illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Cologne, Museum Ludwig; Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle, June 2002 - May 2003, pp. 445 and 478, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals a few tiny spots of loss and media accretions to the epoxy frame. Very close inspection reveals a tiny fly spot to the bottom of the white flower in the centre of the top edge. Inspection under raking light reveals some faint scuffs to the surface of the c-print.
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