"Art to me, is a word that makes me nervous to begin with. We should hone it down… What is it to me? It is the thing that we can most identify as other worldly and it should be honest, and a little bit of irony – not too much. Don’t overload it with irony, it has to balance all these things and hover, it is almost cosmic, but not really. The work as you keep making it, keeps changing, always changes…"
—Erik Parker
- Provenance
  Private Collection
  Acquired from the above by the present owner
- Exhibited
  Rome, Restelliartco Gallery, The Visionary World of Erik Parker, 9 June - 31 August 2022

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Erik Parker

Player Haters

signed, titled and dated '"PLAYAHATERS" Erik Parker 2001 Erik Parker' on the overlap; inscribed '!DRIVEBYFOOLS!' on the stretcher
acrylic, coloured pencil, felt-tip pen and graphite on canvas
213.5 x 152.6 cm (84 x 60 1/8 in.)
Executed in 2001.

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Estimate
£30,000 - 50,000 ‡♠

Sold for £47,880

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