The Pot is God

Details

Anish Kapoor (b. 1954)
The Pot is God
29 ½ x 17 1/8 x 32. 7/8in. (75 x 43.5 x 83.5cm.)
pigment and gesso on wood
Executed in 1985

Provenance

Elisabeth Frank Gallery, Knokke.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1987.

Exhibited

Antwerp, Middelheim Museum, 19th Middelheim Biennale, 1987.

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.

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Lot Essay

‘The object seems to be coming out of the ground or the wall, the powder defining a surface, implying that there is something below the surface, like an iceberg poking out of the subconscious’
(A. Kapoor in interview with C. Lewallen, reproduced in ‘Anish Kapoor’, in View, VII no. 4, San Francisco 1991).

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