“Special Edition Silver Dollar” Artwork by Tim Noble and Sue Webster (From Sotheby’s)
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Estimate: US$70,000 to US$90,000
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important North American Collection
TIM NOBLE AND SUE WEBSTER
b. 1966 and b. 1967
SPECIAL EDITION SILVER DOLLAR
204 ice white turbo reflector caps, lamps, holders and daisy washers, mirror polished stainless steel, electronic light sequencer (3-channel shimmer effect)
72 by 52¼ by 10¼ inches 182.9 by 132.7 by 26 centimeters
Executed in 2007, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3.
Condition Report
Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
London, Gagosian Gallery, Pop Art Is…, September — November 2007, p. 120, illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
Special Edition Silver Dollar by Tim Noble and Sue Webster was specially commissioned on the occasion of the Pop Art Is… exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in London. This major exhibition, Pop Art Is…, marked the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Hamilton’s visionary definition of ‘Pop art.’ The present example was exhibited alongside works by Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol among others who helped contribute to the development of Pop art.
“Pop Art is: Popular (designed for a mass audience), Transient (short term solution), Expendable (easily-forgotten), Low cost, Mass produced, Young, Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky, Glamorous, Big Business… This is just the beginning…”
RICHARD HAMILTON, 1957
The present example is number 1 from an edition of 3 and was executed using mirror polished stainless steel further setting Special Edition Silver Dollar apart from other works by the artists in this series. Echoing the principles of Pop art, Tim Noble and Sue Webster cross all boundaries between high and low culture in creating their installations referencing punk culture, globalization and love. Within the context of the Pop Art Is… exhibition, the present example sparked highly engaging artistic dialogue in regards to methods of seriality and repetition, the use of synthetic materials as well as media images, and references to mass production are visible proof that the concept of Pop is still vital in contemporary art.
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Details From Artsy.net:
Lot 171
Tim Noble & Sue Webster
$, 2001
204 ice white turbo reflector caps, lamps, holders and daisy washers, lacquered brass, electronic light sequencer (3-channel shimmer effect)
72 × 51 × 10 inches | 182.9 × 129.5 × 25.4 centimeters
Edition 5/5 + 1AP
Part of a limited edition set
About the Work
Materials: 204 ice white turbo reflector caps, lamps, holders and daisy washers, lacquered brass, electronic light sequencer (3-channel shimmer effect)
Size: 72 × 51 × 10 inches | 182.9 × 129.5 × 25.4 centimeters
Rarity: Limited edition
Medium: Mixed Media
Artists: Tim Noble & Sue Webster
British, 1966 and 1967
Since the late 1980s, collaborators Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from objects like household garbage, taxidermy, and scrap metal. Under directed light, the assemblages cast recognizable shadows, often self-portraits. In a series of Noble and Webster’s light sculptures, they use computer light sequencing to flash messages of love and hate, referencing shop-front-type signage and carnival shows of British seaside towns. Merging form and anti-form, high culture and anti-culture, their anti-monuments explore psychology and the way we attach meaning to images.
High auction record: £300.0k, Sotheby’s, 2007
Blue-chip: Represented by internationally recognized galleries.
Collected by a major museum: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
Sources and references:
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/tim-noble-and-sue-webster-dollars-1
