Life-Head

Details

Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)
Life-Head
signed and dated 'Gilbert-George 1988' (lower centre)
sixteen hand-dyed silver gelatin prints in artist frames
each: 23¾ x 19 7/8in. (60.5 x 50.5cm.) overall: 95¼ x 79½in. (242 x 202cm.)
Executed in 1988

Provenance

Galleria Christian Stein, Turin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989.

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Lot Essay

"We want our art to speak across the barriers of knowledge directly to People about their Life and not about their knowledge of art...our Art is the friendship formed between the viewer and our pictures...The true function of Art is to bring about new understanding, progress and advancement...We invented and we are constantly inventing our own visual language...The content of mankind is our subject and inspiration!" (Gilbert & George quoted in Gilbert & George-The Complete Pictures 1971-1985, Stuttgart 1986, p. 7.)

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