Anselm Reyle - Contemporary Evening Sale London Sunday, July 5, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Scandinavia

  • Catalogue Essay

    "I found this cheap foil at a studio of a friend. I was very fascinated by this material. The quality - that it was so glossy. I’ve always liked the fact that you have to do very little to make it look good. In this case, you really have a lot of interesting effects created by almost nothing. All the colours reflect and also it has a very psychedelic effect when you look at it from a close distance. A bit like on an acid trip. The fact that this cheap store foil work is such a big contrast to the expensive acrylic box around it, is another aspect. Without this box, it would have been more trashy, cheap and even more fragile. But when it’s inside it gets more serious leaving no doubt that it’s a real piece of art." (Anselm Reyle interviewed by A. Tovborg, Kopenhagen,  27 June, 2006)

17

Untitled

2007
Acrylic and silver PVC foil on canvas in the artist's Plexiglas box.
250 x 199 x 25 cm. (98 1/2 x 78 1/4 x 9 3/4 in).

Estimate
£80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for £85,250

Contemporary Evening Sale

29 June 2009, 7pm
London