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Open Secret
Details
Sir Anthony Caro, O.M., R.A. (1924-2013)
Open Secret
signed and numbered 'A. Caro 2/3' (on the inside of the sculpture), signed again and numbered again 'Anthony Caro 2/3' (lower left of the first sheet of the portfolio)
polished stainless steel, and poems handwritten by Hans Magnus Enzensberger in English and German and a handwritten passage by Sir Anthony Caro from William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
sculpture: 11 3/8 x 31½ x 24¾ in. (29 x 80 x 63 cm.)
portfolio: 21 1/8 x 20¼ in. (53.5 x 51.5 cm.)
Conceived in 2003, this work is number two from an edition of three in polished stainless steel, plus one artist's proof.
Open Secret
signed and numbered 'A. Caro 2/3' (on the inside of the sculpture), signed again and numbered again 'Anthony Caro 2/3' (lower left of the first sheet of the portfolio)
polished stainless steel, and poems handwritten by Hans Magnus Enzensberger in English and German and a handwritten passage by Sir Anthony Caro from William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
sculpture: 11 3/8 x 31½ x 24¾ in. (29 x 80 x 63 cm.)
portfolio: 21 1/8 x 20¼ in. (53.5 x 51.5 cm.)
Conceived in 2003, this work is number two from an edition of three in polished stainless steel, plus one artist's proof.
Provenance
with Ivorypress, Madrid, where purchased by the present owner in 2004.
Literature
D. Blume, Anthony Caro: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. XIV, Cologne, 2007, p. 142, no. 2655, another cast illustrated.
G. Stewart, Bookwork: Medium to Object to Conceptual Art, Chicago, 2011, p. 23, another cast illustrated.
G. Stewart, Bookwork: Medium to Object to Conceptual Art, Chicago, 2011, p. 23, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Blood on Paper, April - June 2008, another cast exhibited.
Woking, The Lightbox, Artists' Books, January - April 2009, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to London, Whitechapel Gallery, September.
Madrid, Ivorypress, Books beyond Artists: Words and Images, February - May 2015, another cast exhibited.
Woking, The Lightbox, Artists' Books, January - April 2009, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to London, Whitechapel Gallery, September.
Madrid, Ivorypress, Books beyond Artists: Words and Images, February - May 2015, another cast exhibited.
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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