Tom Yendell

Details

Marc Quinn (b. 1964)
Tom Yendell
marble
67¾ x 15¾ x 12in. (172.4 x 40 x 30.5cm.)
Executed in 2009, this work is from an edition of three

Provenance

White Cube, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

Literature

L. Buck, "Away from His Body", in The Art Newspaper, November 2000, Vol. XI, no. 108 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 28).

Exhibited

Milan, Fondazione Prada, Marc Quin, 2000 (another from the edition exhibited illustrated in colour, pp. 189-191 and 204; installation view, another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 209).
London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Give and Take, 2001 (another from the edition exhibited).
New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Marc Quinn: The Complete Marbles, 2004 (another from the edition exhibited).

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Lot Essay

'It's about the difference between art and life. Also about inside and outside and how people impute an inside to someone from a reading of their outside ... Traditionally marble is the medium of cultural and social acceptance and celebration ... the marble is used ironically and non-ironically at the same time. The sitters are heroes who have conquered their own interior worlds, and yet disabled people are invisible culturally, in art history. I wanted to celebrate them and use the medium in its original way as well.'
(M. Quinn, quoted in https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/quinn-no-title-p11980/text-summary ([accessed 24th May 2013]).)

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