Breathless II

Details

Christian Marclay (B. 1955)
Breathless II
plastic recorder
12 ¾ x 1 1/8 x 1 1/8in. (32.5 x 3 x 3cm.)
Executed in 2000

Provenance

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010.

Further Details

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Lot Essay

‘... there is something uncanny yet strangely seductive about [Marclay’s] recreation and reanimation of trumpets and tubas, accordions and guitars, violins and recorders as unplayable sculptural forms’ (J. González).

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