Live Auction 1151Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Tonico Lemos Auad (B. 1968)
Lot 203 SOLD TO BENEFIT GASWORKS

Tonico Lemos Auad (B. 1968)

Black Pineapple/Lime

Closed19 October 2013

Price Realised

GBP 18,750

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Tonico Lemos Auad (B. 1968)
Black Pineapple/Lime
linen, thread and silver
overall: dimensions variable
linen element: 13½ x 5½ x 5½in. (34.3 x 14 x 14cm.)
silver element: 1¾ x 1¾in. (4.5 x 4.5cm.)
Executed in 2013, this work is the artist's proof from a series of three unique variations

Donated directly by the artist.
Courtesy Galeria Luisa Strina, Sâo Paulo; Stephen Friedman, London and CRG Gallery, New York.

Specialist note

'Through intricate, painstaking handiwork with an undercurrent of profoundly cultural symbolism, Auad gives temporary shape to mutable things, like tiny whiskers of hope.'
(Y. Kamiya, 'Tonico Lemos Auad', in Creamier, London 2010, p. 27).