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Details

Tal R (b. 1967)
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signed with the artist's initials 'T' (lower left); signed, titled and dated '"B" Tal R 1999' (on the reverse)
oil, paper collage, coloured pencil and graphite on canvas
78 ¾ x 78 ¾in. (200 x 200cm.)
Executed in 1999

Provenance

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.
Private Collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 2000).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012.

Literature

H.-W. Schmidt, Tal R: Arabesque, Berlin 2000, no. 17 (illustrated in colour).

Exhibited

Berlin, Contemporary Fine Arts, At the Foot of Mount Fuki, 1999.

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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‘I feel that art is the only field or discipline where vulnerability is thought of as a good quality. It’d be hard to be vulnerable in the world of politics and business. That’s one of the things that makes art special. A work of art can reveal certain aspects of human nature that other fields can’t. Art is so important for a society, because it is the ghost in the machine.’ – Tal R

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