Anya Gallaccio (B. 1963)
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Anya Gallaccio (B. 1963)

Red Door With Handle

Details
Anya Gallaccio (B. 1963)
Red Door With Handle
gerbera, glass, wood and metal
83 1/8 x 36 ¼ x 6 ¾in. (211 x 92 x 17.3cm.)
Executed in 2003
Provenance
Donated by the Artist, Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
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.
Further details
STUDENT AT GOLDSMITHS: 1985-1988

‘... A recreation of Victorian flower-culture, […in the present work] Gallaccio presses real petals between the glass plates of a French mahogany door […] these flowers gradually decay underneath the glass over the course of [time], becoming faint, shadowy forms’
(A. Finel Honigman, ‘Anya Gallaccio’, https://images.exhibit-e.com/www_lehmannmaupin_com/dcae2cab.pdf [accessed 6th January 2015]).


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