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Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)
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Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)

Skins

Price realised GBP 90,000
Estimate
GBP 60,000 – GBP 80,000
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Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)

Skins

Price realised GBP 90,000
Closed: 7 Mar 2019
Price realised GBP 90,000
Closed: 7 Mar 2019
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Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)
Skins
signed and dated '1986 Gilbert & George' (lower right)
hand-dyed gelatin silver print, in artists' frame, in sixteen parts
each: 23 7/8 x 19 7/8in. (60.5 x 50.5cm.)
overall: 95 ¼ x 79 ½in. (242 x 202cm.)
Executed in 1986
Provenance
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
Private Collection, Paris.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 4 May 1994, lot 353.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
W. Jahn, The Art of Gilbert & George, New York 1989 (installation view at Anthony d'Offay Gallery illustrated in colour, p. 459).
Gilbert & George 1986-1997, exh. cat., Valencia, Reials Drassanes de València, 1999 (installation view at Central House of Artists illustrated in colour, unpaged).
R. Fuchs (ed.), Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures, London 2007, vol. 1 (illustrated in colour, p. 548, installation view at Anthony d'Offay Gallery illustrated in colour, p. 576).
Exhibited
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Gilbert & George: New Pictures (1986 and 1987), 1987.
Moscow, Central House of Artists, Gilbert & George, 1990, p. 25, no. 11 (installation view at Anthony d'Offay Gallery illustrated in colour, p. 23, illustrated in colour, p. 47).
Special notice
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.

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