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Artist |
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Gilbert and George |
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Title |
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To her majesty (in 37 parts)
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Medium |
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gelatin silver print |
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Size |
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57.1 x 137.8 in. / 145 x 350 cm. |
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Year |
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1973 - |
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Description |
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Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)
To Her Majesty
each: consecutively numbered from '1' to '37' (on the reverse) and titled 'To Her Majesty' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
gelatin silver print, in thirty-seven parts
57 1/8 x 137 7/8in. (145 x 350cm.)
Executed in 1973 |
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Misc. |
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Inscribed |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's London: Monday, June 30, 2008
[Lot 27]
Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1980
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Exhibition |
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Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum, Gilbert & George, November 1980 (illustrated, p. 133). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, January 1981; Paris, Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, April 1981 and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, July 1981.
Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'Art contemporain, Gilbert & George, The Complete Pictures 1971-1985, May-September 1986 (illustrated, p. 55). This exhibition later travelled to Basel, Kunsthalle, September-November 1986; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, November 1986-January 1987; Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, February-March 1987; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, April-June 1987 and London, Hayward Gallery, July-September 1987.
London, Tate Modern, Gilbert & George, February-May 2007, pl. 19 (illustrated, p. 50). This exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst Munich, June-September 2007 and Turin, Castello di Rivoli, October 2007-January 2008
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Literature |
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W. Jahn, The Art of Gilbert & George, New York 1989 (exhibition view illustrated, p. 167).
Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971-2005, Volume 1 1971-1988, London 2007 (illustrated, p. 137, exhibition view illustrated, p. 35)
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