Live Auction 5539Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Rebecca Warren (b. 1965)
Lot 160

Rebecca Warren (b. 1965)

Totem (g.)

Closed28 June 2012

Price Realised

GBP 39,650

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Rebecca Warren (b. 1965)
Totem (g.)
hand-painted bronze on painted MDF plinth
bronze: 24½ x 10¾ x 7 7/8in. (62.2 x 27.3 x 30cm.)
plinth: 45¼ x 11¾ x 11¾in. (115 x 30 x 30cm.)
Executed in 2003-2012, this work is number one from an edition of five plus two artist's proofs

Donated by the aritst.

Specialist note

"In all of Rebecca Warrens works the feasibility of the representation of the body as well as of the creative act per se becomes manifest as a monstrosity."
B. Ruf quoted in Rebecca Warren, Dark Passage, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich 2004, p. 12.