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Tony Cragg (B. 1949)
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Tony Cragg (B. 1949)

Constructor (Version 1)

Details
Tony Cragg (B. 1949)
Constructor (Version 1)
incised with the artist's signature and dated 'Tony Cragg 2007' (on the lower part)
stainless steel
45 3⁄8 x 28¾ x 27½in. (116 x 73 x 70cm.)
Executed in 2007
Provenance
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Tony Cragg. Sculptures and Drawings, 2011 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
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. VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

'We have gone beyond the stage where we can just represent things in sculpture. We have to find new means of expression, a new visual language'
(T. Cragg in R. Conway Morris, 'Inventing a 'new visual language' ', International Herald Tribune, 14 October 2010, p. 12).

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