Live Auction 8647Post-War and Contemporary Art
Louise Lawler (B. 1947)
Lot 228

Louise Lawler (B. 1947)

Original Models

Closed17 April 2013

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GBP 11,875

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Louise Lawler (B. 1947)
Original Models
signed, numbered and dated 'Louise Lawler 2/5 1993/94' (on the reverse)
Cibachrome print
39¾ x 47½in. (101 x 120.5cm.)
Executed in 1993-94, this work is number two from an edition of five

Metro Pictures, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994.

Specialist note

'I think there is a lot of distortion involved in how art exists in the world...so I am distorting it myself'

(L. Lawler, quoted in R. Wolff, 'Impressive Proportions: Louise Lawler Photographs Great Art - Then Treats it Like Taffy', in New York Magazine, May 2011, pp. 109).