Newspaper

Details

Clive Barker (b. 1940)
Newspaper
chrome-plated brass
18½ in. (47 cm.), long including base
Conceived in 1967, unique.

Literature

A.J.Fermon & M.Livingstone, Clive Barker: Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné 1958-2000, Milan, 2002, no.49, p.89, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Robert Fraser Gallery, Clive Barker Recent Works, January 1968, no. 9 (illustrated).
London, ICA, Young and Fantastic, 1969. Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery (and tour), Clive Barker:Sculpture, Drawings and Prints (retrospective exhibition), November 1981-May 1982, no. 10.

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Lot Essay

The present work was inspired when Barker visited his parents on Sunday September 11th 1966. Barker says 'My Dad used to buy the News of the World and the headlines that day really caught me eye. Verdict for Hanging - particuarly.' (Clive Barker, private correspondence, 12th October 2005)

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