Live Auction 20267Post-War to Present
YINKA SHONIBARE (B. 1962)
Lot 316 Property from a New York Charitable Family Trust

YINKA SHONIBARE (B. 1962)

Plaything

Closed10 March 2022

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USD 176,400

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YINKA SHONIBARE (B. 1962)
Plaything
acrylic on printed fabric, in thirty parts
each: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
overall dimensions vary with installation
Executed in 1996-1997.

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997

Specialist note

"I want audiences to experience the work, which relates to my home background, but then that's me quoting the received stereotypes of my background. ...I am actually producing something perceived as ethnic, in inverted commas, but at the same time the African fabric is something industrially produced, and given its cultural origins my own authenticity is questioned."
—Yinka Shonibare