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Artist |
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Ashley Bickerton |
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Title |
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Wild gene pool: Ark no.1
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Medium |
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wood, anodized aluminum, rubber, leather, rope, mountaineering harness and corn, soybean, tomato |
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Size |
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76 x 76 x 12.5 in. / 193 x 193 x 31.7 cm. |
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Year |
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1989 - |
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Description |
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Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959)
Wild Gene Pool: Ark #1
wood, anodized aluminum, rubber, leather, rope, mountaineering harness and corn, soybean, tomato, buckwheat, spinach, oats, rice, peanut, cucumber, wheat, squash, common bean, rye, mustard, millet and carrot seeds
76 x 76 x 12½ in. (193 x 193 x 31.7 cm.)
Executed in 1989 |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's New York: Thursday, May 14, 2009
[Lot 399]
Post War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Sale
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Estimate |
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Provenance |
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Sonnabend Gallery, New York
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Exhibition |
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New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Ashley Bickerton, November 1989
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Literature |
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J. Bankowsky, "Ashley Bickerton Sonnabend Gallery," Art Forum, January 1990, p. 133 (illustrated).
K. Harrison, "Tapping Into a Generation's Collective Guilty Conscience," Flash Art, January 1990, p. 141.
K. Larson, "Ashley Bickerton," New York Magazine, November 13, 1989, p. 128 (illustrated)
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