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October 17, 01:19 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Gavin Turk

b. 1967


Pile

each: incised with the artist's signature, titled, dated 2004, numbered PILE 6/6 and consecutively numbered BAG 1(-6)/6 (on the underside)

painted bronze, in six parts

overall: 70 by 163 by 110cm. 27½ by 64¼ by 43¼ in.

Executed in 2004, this work is number 6 from an edition of 6.

White Cube, London

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Phillips, London, 30 June 2015, lot 128 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

London, White Cube, The Golden Thread, January - February 2004 (another example exhibited)

New York, Sean Kelly Gallery, Gavin Turk: White Elephant, February - March 2005 (another example exhibited)

Norwich, Norwich Castle, Art Out of Place, July - September 2005 (another example exhibited)

Graz, Schloss Eggenberg, Last Year in Eggenberg (The Paradise Show), June - September 2006 (another example exhibited)

Grenoble, Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Gavin Turk: Negotiation of Purpose, June - September 2007 (another example exhibited)

The Hague, Museum Voorlinden, The Life of Things, January - November 2025 (another example exhibited)

Judith Collins and Ian Sinclair, Gavin Turk, Munich 2013, p. 165, illustration in colour of another example