Contemporary Art | London

Contemporary Art | London

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August 19, 02:07 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Marc Quinn

b. 1964

Character Head II


incised with the artist's initials, dated 1990 and numbered 1/4 on the reverse

made in bread, cast in lead, on steel support

62.3 by 35.6 by 30.5 cm. 24½ by 14 by 12 in.

Executed in 1990, this work is number 1 from an edition of 4.

Private Collection, London (acquired directly from the artist) 
Sotheby’s, London, 11 December 1997, Lot 266
Private Collection, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Milan, Fondazione Prada, Marc Quinn, 2000, p. 138, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Paris, Galerie Marquardt; and Washington, Middendorf Gallery, Bread Sculpture, January - February and June - July 1990 (ed. no. unknown)

London, Grob Gallery, Marc Quinn: Out of Time, October - November 1991 (ed. no. unknown)

Vienna, Kunsthalle, Faith, Hope, Charity, Death, December 1995 - February 1996 (ed. no. unknown)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Marc Quinn: Incarnate, May - July 1998, n.p., no. 8, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)