Gillian Wearing - Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale London Thursday, June 27, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Regen Projects, Los Angeles
    Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012

  • Exhibited

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation, 19 October-14 December 2003, p. 31 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 87)
    Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Napoli, People: Volti, Corpi e Segni Contemporanei dalla Collezione Ernesto Esposito, 29 June-28 August 2006, p. 130 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 131)
    Vitoria-Gasteiz, Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Gravity: Colección Ernesto Esposito Bilduma, 1 February-18 May 2008 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 58)
    London, Whitechapel Gallery; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen; Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen Pinakothek der Moderne, Gillian Wearing, 8 September 2012-9 June 2013, p. 222 (another example illustrated, pp. 104-105)
    London, National Portrait Gallery, Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the mask another mask, 9 March-29 May 2017, no. 59, pp. 100, 111, 204 (another example illustrated, p. 110)
    New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks, 5 November 2021-13 June 2022, p. 186 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 24)
    London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection, 18 May 2024-5 January 2025 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Uta Grosenick, Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century, Cologne, 2001, p. 538 (another example illustrated, p. 537)
    Gillian Wearing, exh.cat, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, La Caixa, Madrid, 2001, p. 26 (another example illustrated, front cover)
    Jeffrey Deitch, ed., Monument to now: the Dakis Joannou collection, New York, 2004, p. 432 (another example illustrated, p. 431)
    Sandy Nairne and Sarah Howgate, The Portrait Now, London, 2006 (another example illustrated, p. 160 and front cover)
    Warhol Liz, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2011, p. 104 (another example illustrated)
    Anne Pontegnie and Muriel Godfrey, Cranford Collection: Out of the House, Madrid, 2013, p. 135 (another example illustrated)
    Emily Dinsdale, 'Gillian Wearing on masks, inhabiting disguises, and identity as performance', DAZED, 10 November 2021, online (another example illustrated)
    Will Heinrich, 'Gillian Wearing is spilling your secrets', New York Times, 18 November 2021, online (another example illustrated)
    Charlotte Jansen, 'Fragile Beauty review – Elton John and David Furnish’s photo collection goes from basic to brutal', The Guardian, 17 May 2024, online (another example illustrated)

Property of a Distinguished Private Collection

119

Self-portrait

signed 'Gillian Wearing' on a label affixed to the reverse
c-print, in artist's frame
177.8 x 177.8 cm (70 x 70 in.)
Executed in 2000, this work is number 5 from an edition of 10 plus 1 artist's proof.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 ‡♠

Sold for £24,130

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Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale

London Auction 27 June 2024