GILBERT & GEORGE (B. 1943 & 1942)

Cock House

Details

GILBERT & GEORGE (B. 1943 & 1942)
Cock House
signed and dated 'Gilbert & George 1980' (lower centre of panel 18) each titled and numbered '1/20 to 20/20' (on the reverse)
20 black and white photographs mounted in metal frames
95 x 99in. (241 x 250cm.)

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay, London.

Literature

C. Radcliffe, "Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971-1985", Munich 1986, p.16 and p. 144 (illustrated).
W. Jahn, "The Art of Gilbert & George", London 1989, (illustration in colour of the installation of this picture at the 1981 São Paulo Biennale, p.241).

Exhibited

São Paulo, "16 Biennale de São Paulo," 1981.

Lot Essay

"Gilbert & George
We are unhealthy, middle-aged, dirty-minded, eccentric, pleasure seeking, depressed, cynical, empty, tired-brained, seedy, rotten, dreaming, badly-behaved, ill-mannered, arrogant, intellectual, self-pitying, honest, successful, hard working, thoughtful, artistic, religious, fascistic, blood-thirsty, teasing, destructive, ambitious, colourful, damned, stubborn, perverted and good. We are artists.
1980".
(In: "documenta 7", Kassel 1982, p.133.

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