Gilbert & George - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, May 17, 2013 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
    Phillips de Pury & Company New York, Contemporary Art Part II, May 12, 2006, lot 442
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Gilbert & George, The Complete Pictures, 1971-1985, May 9 - September 7, 1986, then traveled to Basel, Kunsthalle (September 28 - November 9, 1986), Brussels, Palais Des Beaux Arts, Brussels (November 21, 1986 - January 11, 1987), Madrid, Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Retiro (February 4 - March 29, 1987), Munich, Städische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (April 15 - June 14, 1987), London, Hayward Gallery (July 9 - September 26, 1987)

  • Literature

    Gilbert & George, The Complete Pictures, 1971-1985, Germany: 1986, p. 167 (illustrated)
    R. Fuchs, Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971-2005, in Two Volumes,vol 1., London: Tate, 2007, p. 358 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    “… we had always kept each image to a single panel. Then we discovered that it wasn’t necessary. Before we had thought of a four-panel piece as a four-part piece- four images, sixteen in a sixteen-panel piece and so on. We decided we could do exactly as we pleased.”
    Gilbert & George, 1986

203

Aklis

1980
photo ink on photographs in artist's frames, in 15 parts
each 25 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (64.8 x 49.5 cm.)
overall 77 x 99 in. (195.6 x 251.5 cm.)

Signed "Gilbert and George" lower right.

Estimate
$180,000 - 250,000 

Sold for $173,000

Contact Specialist
Amanda Stoffel
Head of Sale
astoffel@phillips.com
+1 212 940 1261

Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York 17 May 2013 10am