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Artist |
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Andres Serrano |
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Piss Christ
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cibachrome print, face-mounted |
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Size |
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40 x 29.9 in. / 101.6 x 76 cm. |
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Year |
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1987 - |
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Description |
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Andres Serrano (b. 1950)
Piss Christ
Cibachrome print face-mounted... |
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Edition |
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4/10 |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's New York: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
[Lot 411]
Post -War And Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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Provenance |
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Stux Gallery, New York
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Exhibition |
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Winston Salem, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery; and Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Awards in the Visual Arts 7, May 1988-January 1989, p. 115 (illustrated, another example exhibited).
Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle; Ljubljana, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana; Bregenz, Magazin 4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein; Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts; Houston, Contemporary Art Museum; and Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Andres Serrano Works 1983-1993, January 1994-February 1996, p. 63 (illustrated, another example exhibited).
The Netherlands, Groninger Museum, A History of Andres Serrano: A History of Sex, February-May 1997, p. 20 (illustrated; another print exhibited)
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Literature |
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D. Kuspit, "Objects and Bodies: Ten Artists in Search of Interiority," Awards in the Visual Arts, Winston-Salem, p. 13.
R. Johnson, "Storm Over 'Art' Photo of Christ", The New York Post, May 12, 1989, p. 6.
R. Atkins, "Stream of Conscience," The Village Voice, May 30, 1989, vol. 34, no. 22, pp. 87-88 (illustrated).
P. Finnegan, "Bearing the Cross: An Interview with Andres Serrano," Contemporanea, No. 22, November 1990, pp. 32-35.
G. R. Denson, "John Miller and Andres Serrano. 'Bad Boy' Sublimination", Contemporanea, No. 22, November 1990, pp. 37-41.
E. Heartney, "Andres Serrano: Challenging Complacency," Latin American Art, Winter 1990, pp. 37-39 (illustrated).
B. Wallis, Andres Serrano: Body and Soul, New York, 1995 (illustrated).
A. Serrano, A History of Sex, Milano, 1998, p. 6 (illustrated).
U. Grosenick and B. Riemschneider, Art at the Turn of the Millenium, Cologne, 1999, p. 461 (illustrated).
B. Wallis Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America, New York, 1999 (illustrated)
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