Lot 197: NICKY HOBERMAN

NICKY HOBERMAN B.1967 MERMAID II signed, titled and dated '97 on the overlap oil on canvas 152 by 244cm.; 60 by 96in.

Sale, Sotheby's London, 24th June 2004, lot 301, where acquired by the present owner

Born in Cape Town, Hoberman has received MAs from Oxford and Chelsea College of Art and now lives and works in London. She gained prominence following her selection for both the New Contemporaries show at Tate Liverpool in 1996, and for Saatchi's exhibition of New Neurotic Realism in 1998. She has subsequently exhibited extensively including participating in group shows at galleries such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and Magasin 3, Stockholm and has also held three solo shows at Feigen Contemporary, New York.