Live Auction 16936Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)
Lot 313 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN FAMILY

Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)

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Closed7 March 2019

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GBP 90,000

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Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)
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signed and dated '1986 Gilbert & George' (lower right)
hand-dyed gelatin silver print, in artists' frame, in sixteen parts
each: 23 7/8 x 19 7/8in. (60.5 x 50.5cm.)
overall: 95 ¼ x 79 ½in. (242 x 202cm.)
Executed in 1986

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
Private Collection, Paris.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 4 May 1994, lot 353.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘We like it very much when the pictures take over. When they’re bigger than the viewer. You go to a museum to look at a picture, but we like it when the picture looks at you... We want to dominate the viewer with the forces of art. Because art can change people. We believe that.’
– Gilbert & George