Wim Delvoye - 20th Century to Now London Friday, June 30, 2023 | Phillips
  • ‘‘Yes that's so eternal. How do you judge archaeological stuff? How do you judge sculpture […] why does culture for thousands of years focus on craftsmanship and then all of a sudden in the 20th century it stops?! The expectation is if you are literate, you like abstract art, monochromes and conceptual art - the reasoning is that working class people are too stupid to understand modern art.’’
    —Wim Delvoye

    • Provenance

      Perrotin, Paris
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Paris, Perrotin, Wim Delvoye, 10 March - 19 May 2007
      Essen, Museum Folkwang, Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection, 5 May -​ 1 July 2007​, p. 269
      Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Go for it ! Olbricht​ Collection (a sequel), 10 May 2008 - 17 January 2010
      Kunsthalle Krems, Lebenslust & Totentanz: Olbricht Collection, 18​ July - 7 November 2010​, p. 183 (illustrated, p. 74)
      Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bild Macht Religion: Kunst zwischen​ Verehrung, Verbot und Vernichtung, 13 October 2018 - 24 February​ 2019

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Chapelle

steel, stainless steel, stained glass and lightbulbs
330.5 x 308.2 x 184.8 cm (130 1/8 x 121 3/8 x 72 3/4 in.)
Executed in 2007.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
£100,000 - 150,000 ‡♠

Sold for £114,300

Contact Specialist

Leonor de Osma
Head of Sale, 20th Century to Now
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20th Century to Now

London Auction 30 June 2023