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Anish Kapoor
Untitled, from 15 Etchings (from the Equitable Assurance Gallery collection)

1996

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Anish Kapoor Untitled, from 15 Etchings (from the Equitable Assurance Gallery collection), 1996 Etching on Zerkall paper Pencil signed and numbered 21/30 on the front; bears embossed label from Equitable Life Assurance Gallery with inventory number on the back Frame included: floated and framed in a museum quality hand made frame with UV plexiglass from the renowned Bark frameworks This poignant Anish Kapoor etching is pencil signed and numbered 21/30 on the front. It is floated and framed in a dark wood frame with acrylic glazing. Provenance: from the collection of the Equitable Life Assurance Gallery, bearing its embossed collection label with unique inventory number on the back of the frame (framed by the prestigious Bark Frameworks in New York with acrylic glazing.) Other examples of this work are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of FIne Arts Boston, the South London Gallery, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and other major institutional and public collections. Exhibition History: The Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met Breuer]. "Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs," October 10, 2017–January 2, 2018. (another example) Literature: Paragon catalogue, Vol. I, p. 130-133 Measurements: Artwork: 20 inches (vertical) x 23.1 inches (horizontal Framed: 22.5 inches (veritcal) x 25.5 inches (horizontal) x 1 inch (depth) Kapoor is known for sculptural installations that create an environment in which the viewer's body and mind are transformed by the subtle power of color, shape, and light. His portfolio 15 Etchings provides a similar sensorial experience, with its sensual surfaces and rainbow of deep hues. Kapoor works with a minimalist vocabulary of clean lines and forms, even though the resulting installations are generally massive in size. Born in Bombay, Kapoor has lived in London since the 1970s. In 1991, he won the prestigious Turner Prize, the top award in England given to visual artists. -Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Described by the artist as an ‘interior landscape’, this suite of etchings alludes to both physical presence and psychological space. The etchings are printed using a combination of spitbite and aquatint processes, two opposing techniques in which the etched surface of the plate creates positive and negative forms respectively. The exploration of polarities; solid and intangible forms, positive and negative space, presence and absence; is evident in Kapoor’s sculpture at the time, such as Abstract Box, 1995, also included in the SLG collection. The artist explained: “I’ve moved towards an emptying out of the form, towards a vacant space. I’m trying to find that in these prints.” -Courtesy of the South London Gallery Anish Kapoor Biography Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Mumbai, and lives and works in London. His work is featured in public collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; Tate Britain; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Selected solo institutional exhibitions include "Anish Kapoor: Marsyas," Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2002); "My Red Homeland," Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2003, traveled to Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga, Spain in 2006); "Anish Kapoor: Ascension," Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (2006, traveled to Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Brasilia; Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, São Paulo); Sky Mirror, Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York (2006); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2007); "Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2008); "Anish Kapoor: Memory," Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2008, traveled to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2009); National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2010); Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2010); "MONUMENTA 2011: Leviathan," Grand Palais, Paris (2011); Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2012); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2012); Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul (2013); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2013); and Chateau de Versailles, France (2015). "Anish Kapoor. Archaelogy: Biology" is currently on view at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico until November 27, 2016. Public commissions include Cloud Gate Millennium Park, Chicago (2004); and Turning the World Upside Down, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2010). ArcelorMittal Orbit (2012) is permanently installed at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London -Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
  • Creator:
    Anish Kapoor (1954, Indian)
  • Creation Year:
    1996
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)Width: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1745214074162
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