Live Auction 10420First Open / LDN
Michaël Borremans (B. 1963)
Lot 74

Michaël Borremans (B. 1963)

De Mystieke Congregatie der Edelmoedigen (The Mystique Congregation of the Noblemen)

Closed26 March 2015

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Michaël Borremans (B. 1963)
De Mystieke Congregatie der Edelmoedigen (The Mystique Congregation of the Noblemen)
signed, titled and numbered 'Michaël M.C.G Borremans - DE MYSTIEKE CONGREGATIE DER EDELMOEDIGEN - Eigen Druk. 1/1' (lower margin)
etching on paper
image: 14 ¾ x 22 ¾in. (37.5 x 57.8cm.)
sheet: 26 ½ x 41 1/8in. (67.3 x 104.2cm.)
Executed in 1991, this work is the artist's proof from an edition of twelve plus one artist's proof

Gift from the artist to the present owner in 2000.

Specialist note

‘I don’t refer to these things [the history of art] intentionally – the references are there in all my work. There are references to the history of art that are not specific. They appeal to your consciousness in a very open way. It’s something I think about. All the imagery of the 20th century and earlier is baggage we have to deal with. My work is an answer to that, a dialogue with that’ (M. Borremans, quoted in D. Coggins, ‘Interview: Michael Borremans’, in Art in America, March 2009, www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/michael-borremans/).