Gilbert & George - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, June 27, 2019 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
    Phillips, New York, 17 November 2006, lot 397
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Gilbert & George, 19 June - 21 August 1994, no. 16, p. 44 (illustrated)
    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Gilbert & George 1970-1997, 17 April - 20 June 1999, no. 54 (illustrated)

  • Literature

    Gilbert & George: 1968 - 1980, exh. cat., Municipal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle, Bern; Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1980, p. 270 (illustrated)
    Michael Bracewell, The Postcard Art of Gilbert & George 1972-1989, Munich, 2011, p. 106 (illustrated)

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Coronation

signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'CORONATION A Post-Card Sculpture by Gilbert and George 1980' on a label lower right
21 postcards laid on board, in artist's frame
66.7 x 127.6 cm (26 1/4 x 50 1/4 in.)
Executed in 1980.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠

Sold for £23,750

Contact Specialist

Tamila Kerimova

Director, Specialist
Head of Day Sale
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 28 June 2019