Happy Balls, Sad Balls

Details

David Shrigley (B. 1968)
Happy Balls, Sad Balls
each: signed with the artist's initials and dated 'D.S. 08' (on the overlap)
spray-paint and acrylic on canvas, in two parts
each: 34 x 24in. (86.5 x 61.5cm.)
Executed in 2008

Provenance

Anton Kern Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.

Exhibited

New York, Anton Kern Gallery, David Shrigley, 2008.

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Lot Essay

David Shrigley’s diptych, Happy Balls, Sad Balls shows the artist’s characteristic humour: whilst working in a seemingly abstract mode he anthropomorphizes his works and gives them individual personalities. Like the subtle differences between the similar work by Robert Rauschenberg, Factum I and Factum II from 1957, Shrigley’s diptych seems to display subtly varied ways of executing the same subject matter.

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