Live Auction 21951Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale
EDMUND DE WAAL (B. 1964)
Lot 169

EDMUND DE WAAL (B. 1964)

For Agnes Martin

Closed19 October 2023

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GBP 94,500

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EDMUND DE WAAL (B. 1964)
For Agnes Martin
one hundred and fifty-two porcelain vessels, with pink, pale brown, grey and white glazes, in a plywood cabinet
35 x 26 x 4 1⁄8 in. (89 x 66 x 10.5 cm.)
Executed in 2010.
To be sold with the artist's certificate.

with New Art Centre, Salisbury, where purchased by the present owner in August 2010.

Specialist note

'De Waal's pots - and the way he groups the pots to display them - are unlike anything else I have seen. They are solid and at the same time vanishing and ghostly, Platonic ideas of the essence of forms and the essence of glazed porcelain' (A.S. Byatt, 'Song of Porcelain', The Guardian, 10 October 2009)