Live Auction 1559Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Adam McEwen (B. 1965)
Lot 211

Adam McEwen (B. 1965)

Untitled

Closed17 October 2014

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GBP 47,500

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Adam McEwen (B. 1965)
Untitled
signed and dated 'A McEwen 2011' (on the reverse)
graphite mounted on aluminium panel
40 x 30in. (106.1 x 76.2cm.)
Executed in 2011

Art Concept, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘The sculpture refers to that efficiency and cleanliness of work, but the graphite is dirty... The back story to minimalism is not one of a pure and holy aura. There is a more human and dirty and flawed back story and I thought the graphite could get to that’ (A. McEwen, quoted in P. Knowles, ‘On Grace of Graphite’, in SOMA, vol. 23, no. 3, Spring 2009).