Compound II

Details

ANTONY GORMLEY (B. 1950)
Compound II
cast iron
25 x 25 ¾ x 25 ¾in. (63.5 x 66 x 66cm.)
Executed in 1996

Provenance

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

‘I’ve been trying to say the body is a place or a space over and above its existence as an object, and this is, in a sense, the mystery of our being. That infinite space of the darkness of the body is as boundless and unknowable as deep cosmic space.’
–Antony Gormley

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