Mark Tansey - Contemporary Art Evening Sale London Sunday, June 26, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited

    Visions of America: Landscape as Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century: Colorado, Denver Art Museum; Ohio, 14 May–11 September 2005; Columbus Museum of Art, 16 October–8 January 1995

  • Literature

    Visions of America: Landscape as Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century, exh. cat., New York: Harry N Abrams, 1994, pp. 172–73; no. 4, p. 230 (illustrated in colour)

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Library (of Babylon)

1994
Oil on canvas in two parts.
Overall: 149.9 × 489 cm (59 × 192 1/2 in).
Each signed, titled and dated ‘Tansey, 1994, Library (of Babylon)’ on the reverse.

Estimate
£1,200,000 - 1,800,000 

Sold for £1,161,250

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

27 June
London