Contemporary Discoveries
Contemporary Discoveries
Urs Fischer
The Cat with the Broken Leg
Lot Closed
March 16, 05:02 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Urs Fischer
b. 1973
The Cat with the Broken Leg or The Cat Who Laid the Golden Egg
fiberglass reinforced polymer resin
Crouching Cat: 11⅜ by 11¾ by 4½ in. (28.8 by 29.8 by 11.4 cm.)
Standing Cat: 12⅞ by 17 by 6½ in. (32.7 by 43.2 by 16.5 cm.)
Executed in 2000; this example is number 1 from an edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof.
“Urs Fischer is an artist who comes to grips with things in a radical manner. If artists are equipped with the ability to make us experience the world in new ways and see it differently, then Fischer achieves this by digging into reality with particularly large claws.”
– Bice Curiger, “Spaces Generated by Vision or Basements Save Windows,” in Urs Fischer: Shovel in a Hole (Zürich: JRP/Ringier, 2009), p. 12.