Metal Flag

Details

David Shrigley (B. 1968)
Metal Flag
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'D.S.08' (on the bottom of the base)
enamel paint and steel
64 7/8 x 20 5/8 x 14 5/8in. (164.7 x 52.3 x 37.2cm.)
Executed in 2008

Provenance

Anton Kern Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.

Exhibited

New York, Anton Kern Gallery, David Shrigley, 2008.

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Lot Essay

David Shrigley’s Metal Flag is rendered in the artist’s characteristic comic type, creating faux naïf works. Metal Flag undercuts the apparent seriousness usually associated with written statements on flags: on the reverse, the inscription “No Wind Shall Govern It” ironically plays on the work’s material of metal making it impervious to the wind.

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