Live Auction 1135Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Marc Quinn (b. 1964)
Lot 343

Marc Quinn (b. 1964)

Tom Yendell

Closed26 June 2013

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GBP 133,875

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Marc Quinn (b. 1964)
Tom Yendell
marble
67¾ x 15¾ x 12in. (172.4 x 40 x 30.5cm.)
Executed in 2009, this work is from an edition of three

White Cube, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

Specialist note

'It's about the difference between art and life. Also about inside and outside and how people impute an inside to someone from a reading of their outside ... Traditionally marble is the medium of cultural and social acceptance and celebration ... the marble is used ironically and non-ironically at the same time. The sitters are heroes who have conquered their own interior worlds, and yet disabled people are invisible culturally, in art history. I wanted to celebrate them and use the medium in its original way as well.'
(M. Quinn, quoted in https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/quinn-no-title-p11980/text-summary ([accessed 24th May 2013]).)