Carpe d’or, 2008

Details

LOUISE LAWLER (B. 1947)
Carpe d’or, 2008
Cibachrome print, face-mounted to acrylic, flush-mounted on museum box, printed 2010
signed, dated '2008/10' and numbered '3/5' in ink with typed credit, title, date and number on affixed gallery label (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 55 1/4 x 47 5/8 in. (140.3 x 121 cm.)
This work is number three from an edition of five plus one artist's proof.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2011.

Lot Essay

In the 1980s Lawler began photographing artworks displayed or stored in museums, auction houses and the homes of collectors, as part of her ongoing investigation of the value and circulation of art. The sculpture in the foreground of the present lot is Carpe d'Or, completed by François Xavier Lalanne (1927–2008) in 1987. Working with his wife, Claude Lalanne (B. 1924), François Xavier's most acclaimed sculptures take the form of surreal flora and fauna.

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