Live Auction 1107Post-War and Contemporary Art (Day Auction)
Louise Lawler (b. 1947)
Lot 107 IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY
A SELECTION OF WORKS FROM THE GOETZ COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT CHARITY PROJECTS

Louise Lawler (b. 1947)

Happy New Year

Closed14 February 2013

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GBP 44,450

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Louise Lawler (b. 1947)
Happy New Year
signed and numbered 'Louise A. Lawler 1/5' (on the reverse)
Cibachrome print
40¼ x 52 3/8in. (102.3 x 133.2cm.)
Executed in 1991, this work is number one from an edition of five

Metro Pictures, New York.
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.
Anon. sale, Phillips de Pury New York, 9 November 2004, lot 115.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Lawler's photographs subtly operate on the borderline between high art and kitsch: when clichés suddenly become authentic and vice versa; or when aggressiveness and moments of shock turn into humor and parody'.
(A. Hochdörfer, quoted in H. Molesworth, 'Louise Lawler: Just the Facts', Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), exh. cat., Wexner Centre for the Arts, Ohio 2006, p. 143).