Live Auction 18504The Landscape of a Mind: A Private Collector's Surreal Vision
Mark Tansey (b. 1949)
Lot 570

Mark Tansey (b. 1949)

The Seven Deadly Sins

Closed20 June 2019

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GBP 62,500

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Mark Tansey (b. 1949)
The Seven Deadly Sins
(i) titled 'Taste' (lower left)
(ii) titled 'Touch' (lower left)
(iii) titled 'Smell' (lower left)
(iv) titled 'Sound' (lower left)
(v) titled 'Motion' (lower left)
(vi) titled 'Depth' (lower left)
(vii) titled 'Time' (lower left); signed and dated 'Tansey 82' (lower right)
graphite on paper, in seven parts
each image: 4 ¾ x 3 ¾in. (12 x 9.5cm.)
overall: 12 ¼ x 46 ¼in. (31.2 x 117.5cm.)
Executed in 1982

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York.
Leslie and Ron Rosenzweig, Short Hills, New York.
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York.
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011.

Specialist note


'He seeks to lure us ever more deeply into the flux of time and the gaps of space by drawing the viewer into the work of art and drawing the work of art into the field of the viewer... Within his frame of reference, time is no longer a prison from which we seek to escape but is the vital medium of life itself' 
- M.C. Taylor