Sacrificial Heart

Price realised GBP 85,250

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GBP 150,000 – GBP 250,000

Closed: 9 Feb 2012

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Tim Noble (b. 1966) & Sue Webster (b. 1967)

Sacrificial Heart

Price realised GBP 85,250

Closed: 9 Feb 2012

Price realised GBP 85,250

Closed: 9 Feb 2012

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Tim Noble (b. 1966) & Sue Webster (b. 1967)
Sacrificial Heart
signed and numbered 'Tim Noble Sue Webster 3/3' (on a label affixed to the inside)
white turbo reflector caps, lamps, holders, painted aluminium stainless steel, fibreglass and electronic light sequencer
120 7/8 x 76 7/8 x 50 in. (307 x 195 x 127 cm.)
Executed in 2007, this work is number three from an edition of three plus 2 artist's proofs

Gagosian Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

'By the middle of the nineties the artist couple began to work with light. They were inspired by a trip to Las Vegas although they say that watching videos of films about Las Vegas inspired them as well. Exuberant, vivacious and redolent of the perverse glamour of British traveling funfairs, these light pieces took the 'trash aesthetic' of rockabilly Gothicism and turned it into free-floating emblems of desire and sensory overload.' (M. Bracewell, 'Tim Noble and Sue Webster: Shadowplay', exh. cat., , London 2000, p. 168).