Live Auction 8054Living With Art - A Private European Collection, Evening Sale
Tim Noble (b. 1966) & Sue Webster (b. 1967)
Lot 653

Tim Noble (b. 1966) & Sue Webster (b. 1967)

Sacrificial Heart

Closed9 February 2012

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GBP 85,250

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Tim Noble (b. 1966) & Sue Webster (b. 1967)
Sacrificial Heart
signed and numbered 'Tim Noble Sue Webster 3/3' (on a label affixed to the inside)
white turbo reflector caps, lamps, holders, painted aluminium stainless steel, fibreglass and electronic light sequencer
120 7/8 x 76 7/8 x 50 in. (307 x 195 x 127 cm.)
Executed in 2007, this work is number three from an edition of three plus 2 artist's proofs

Gagosian Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'By the middle of the nineties the artist couple began to work with light. They were inspired by a trip to Las Vegas although they say that watching videos of films about Las Vegas inspired them as well. Exuberant, vivacious and redolent of the perverse glamour of British traveling funfairs, these light pieces took the 'trash aesthetic' of rockabilly Gothicism and turned it into free-floating emblems of desire and sensory overload.' (M. Bracewell, 'Tim Noble and Sue Webster: Shadowplay', exh. cat., Apocalypse, London 2000, p. 168).