Adel Abdessemed - New Now London Tuesday, July 13, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    David Zwirner, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Cambridge, List Visual Arts Centre, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Adel Abdessemed Situation and Practice, 10 October 2008 - 4 January 2009
    New York, David Zwirner, Rio, 3 April - 9 May 2009

  • Literature

    'Adel Abdessemed, 'Rio', New York Times, 23 April 2009, online
    Ben Davis, 'Animal Spirits', Artnet Magazine, 30 April 2009, online (illustrated)

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Prostitute

artist's transcript in ink of the Bible, Torah, Koran in leather bound notebooks in wooden boxes and acrylic on paper shopping bags
86.4 x 41.9 x 34.9 cm (34 x 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.)
Executed in 2008.

Estimate
£8,000 - 12,000 ‡♠

Sold for £11,340

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London Auction 13 July 2021