Live Auction 1107Post-War and Contemporary Art (Day Auction)
Tony Cragg (b. 1949)
Lot 311

Tony Cragg (b. 1949)

Early Forms

Closed14 February 2013

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GBP 118,850

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Tony Cragg (b. 1949)
Early Forms
bronze
29½ x 85 x 37in. (75 x 216 x 94cm.)
Executed in 1993, this work is number one from an edition of three

Buchmann Galerie, Basel.
Acquired form the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Works in the Early Forms group are always to do with vessels transforming and mutating into one another in space. Vessels are a strong metaphor for the body and organisms of the natural world and in addition, from an archeological viewpoint, they are the means by which we gauge our own culture and other cultures. Early Forms retain they own integrity as revealed by their skin: one can see the real outside surface while it reveals its interior volumes.'

(T. Cragg, quoted in New Thing Breathing: Recent Work by Tony Cragg, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, Liverpool 2000, p. 28).