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Details

Adam McEwen (B. 1965)
Untitled
signed and dated 'A McEwen 2011' (on the reverse)
graphite mounted on aluminium panel
40 x 30in. (106.1 x 76.2cm.)
Executed in 2011

Provenance

Art Concept, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

‘The sculpture refers to that efficiency and cleanliness of work, but the graphite is dirty... The back story to minimalism is not one of a pure and holy aura. There is a more human and dirty and flawed back story and I thought the graphite could get to that’ (A. McEwen, quoted in P. Knowles, ‘On Grace of Graphite’, in SOMA, vol. 23, no. 3, Spring 2009).

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