Live Auction 2793Post-War and Contemporary Afternoon Session
MATTHEW BARNEY (B. 1967)
Lot 449 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION

MATTHEW BARNEY (B. 1967)

Cremaster 5: Her Giant

Closed13 November 2013

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MATTHEW BARNEY (B. 1967)
Cremaster 5: Her Giant
signed, incised with artist's mark and dated 'Matthew Barney '97' (on the reverse)
color coupler print in artist's self-lubricating acrylic frame
52¾ x 42¾ in. (133.9 x 108.5 cm.)
Executed in 1997. This work is number five from an edition of six plus two artist's proofs.

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998

Specialist note

"The five chapters of the story are about an organism that is changing, and the system that changes that form alters from chapter to chapter...It's essentially about an imposed will onto the state of the [cremaster] form, sometimes in a very abstract way, sometimes in a more literal, biological way. But it's basically a structural word. It's being used as a way to tell the story, and not as a way to define a biological system at all" (Matthew Barney, pbs.org/art21/images/matthew-barney/cremaster-5-1997).