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Details

Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960)
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polyurethane rubber and sterling steel
19 x 16 x 7in. (48.2 x 40.6 x 17.7cm.)
Executed in 2009, this work is from an edition of ten plus two artist's proofs

Provenance

Massimo De Carlo, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.

Exhibited

Houston, The Menil Collection, Maurizio Cattelan: Is There Life Before Death?, 2010, p. 8 (another from the edition exhibited, installation view illustrated, pp. 10-11).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Maurizio Cattelan. All, 2011-2012, pp. 240 and 250, no. 105 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 240).

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Lot Essay

‘A jester? I’ve been trying to say serious things for a lifetime, but nobody ever believes me. A con-man? I never robbed anyone, never committed perjury, never committed immoral acts. A liar? I don’t believe in a single truth, only in an infinite combination of possibilities. I’m a bundle of contradictions, just like everyone else.’
(M. Cattelan, quoted in A. Bellini, ‘An interview with Maurizio Cattelan’, in Sculpture, vol. 24, no. 7, September 2005).

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