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Anish Kapoor (b. 1954)
Lot 63 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Anish Kapoor (b. 1954)

Untitled

Closed28 June 2011

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GBP 553,250

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Anish Kapoor (b. 1954)
Untitled
stainless steel and lacquer
59 1/8 x 47¼ x 13 5/8in. (150 x 120 x 34.5cm.)
Executed in 2001

Lisson Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2001.

Specialist note

'I think the real subject for me, if there is one, is the sublime. Its this whole notion of somehow trying to shorten the distance of sublime experience. If one is looking at a Friedrich painting of a figure looking at the sunset, then one is having one's reverie in terms of their experience It is my wish to make that distance shorter so that the reverie is direct. You're not watching someone else do it; you're compelled to do it yourself'.
(Anish Kapoor, interview with Martin Gayford, Modern Painters, Spring 2000)