Ashley Bickerton

Lot 399: Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959)

Name: Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 1eeb4ccecd

Est: $50,000 USD - $70,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USMay 14, 2009

Item Overview

Description

Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959)
Wild Gene Pool: Ark #1
wood, anodized aluminum, rubber, leather, rope, mountaineering harness and corn, soybean, tomato, buckwheat, spinach, oats, rice, peanut, cucumber, wheat, squash, common bean, rye, mustard, millet and carrot seeds
76 x 76 x 12½ in. (193 x 193 x 31.7 cm.)
Executed in 1989.

Artist or Maker

Ashley Bickerton

Exhibited

New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Ashley Bickerton, November 1989.

Literature

J. Bankowsky, "Ashley Bickerton Sonnabend Gallery," Art Forum, January 1990, p. 133 (illustrated).
K. Harrison, "Tapping Into a Generation's Collective Guilty Conscience," Flash Art, January 1990, p. 141.
K. Larson, "Ashley Bickerton," New York Magazine, November 13, 1989, p. 128 (illustrated).

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Auction Details

Post War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Sale

Christie's

May 14, 2009, 02:00 PM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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