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Barbara Kruger
Du Willst Es. Du Kaufst Es. Du Vergisst Es. (You Want It. You Buy It. You Forget It.)
- Estimate
- £3,000 - 5,000‡♠
£3,750
Lot Details
Archival pigment print in colours, on smooth light-weight card paper, with full margins,
2013
I. 40.5 x 53 cm (15 7/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
S. 43.1 x 55.8 cm (16 7/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
S. 43.1 x 55.8 cm (16 7/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
stamp signed in pink and numbered 6/8 in pencil on the reverse (there was also 1 artist's proof), published by Kunsthaus-Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria, unframed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
For the occasion of the 2002 Schirn exhibition, Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture, Barbara Kruger covered the entire façade of the Galeria Kaufhof on the Zeil in Frankfut with a 2,200 square-metre work, comprising two enormous eyes overlooking the pedestrian shoppers, with the inscription above reading: DU WILLST ES. DU KAUFST ES. DU VERGISST ES. (YOU WANT IT, YOU BUY IT, YOU FORGET IT).