Live Auction 10338Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Fiona Banner (B. 1966)
Lot 119

Fiona Banner (B. 1966)

Beagle Punctuation

Closed12 February 2015

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GBP 20,000

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Fiona Banner (B. 1966)
Beagle Punctuation
signed with the artist’s initials, titled and dated ‘Beagle Punctuation 2013 F.B.’ (lower right)
neon bent by artist, wire, paper template and transformer in artist’s Perspex frame
28 ¾ x 20 7/8 x 5 7/8in. (73 x 53 x 15cm.)
Executed in 2013, this work is unique

Donated by the Artist, Courtesy of Fiona Banner and Frith Street Gallery, London.

Specialist note

‘Snoopy represents “being” in its purest sense and form. The familiar contour of his form is totemic, reduced, almost a sign or a letter. In Beagle Punctuation the image of Snoopy’s face teeters on the edge of abstraction. Two neon question marks and a full stop blown by Banner herself conjure his unmistakable face. Beyond these punctuation marks, which seem to question language itself, lies the iconic cartoon’
(J. Pocock, in Snoopy Vs The Red Baron, exh. cat., Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, 2011, unpaged).