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Thomas Schütte (b. 1954)
Lot 66 PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

Thomas Schütte (b. 1954)

Quartett

Closed30 June 2015

Price Realised

GBP 182,500

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Thomas Schütte (b. 1954)
Quartett
bronze and steel, in five parts
overall: 62 ¾ x 22 5/8 x 19 ¾in. (159.5 x 57.5 x 50cm.)
Executed in 1994, this work is unique

Galleria Christian Stein, Milan.
Private Collection, Spain.
Faggionato Fine Arts, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010.

Specialist note

‘Thomas Schütte is neither architect nor painter nor sculptor. He is the engineer who confronts the architect with construction, the painter with the image, and the sculptor with the public site. The question is the frame and the pedestal as well as the foundation. The question is the future of our institutions as well as the historicity of our dreams’ (D. Zacharopoulos, quoted in Fifteen Monuments by Thomas Schütte, exh. cat., Galerie Philip Nelson, Villeurbanne, 1984, unpaged).