The 2014 Terrence Higgins Trust Auction catalogue
The 2014 Terrence Higgins Trust Auction catalogue
The 2014 Terrence Higgins Trust Auction catalogue
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SIR ANISH KAPOOR, CBE RA<br />
UNTITLED, <strong>2014</strong><br />
Polymer gravure type etching<br />
Plate size 23cm x 30cm<br />
Paper size 32cm x 38cm<br />
Edition of 150<br />
Signed and numbered by the artist<br />
Unframed<br />
We are thrilled to offer exclusive limited edition prints donated by Turner Prize-winning artist<br />
Anish Kapoor.<br />
Influential sculptor Kapoor was born in 1954 in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). He has<br />
lived in London since the early 1970s and was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in<br />
2013. He won the coveted Turner Prize in 1991.<br />
Kapoor’s works are commissioned the world over – from New York to New Zealand. In 2006 he<br />
installed Sky Mirror - a 10 metre circular mirror made from polished stainless steel - outside<br />
the Rockefeller Centre in New York.<br />
Kapoor’s major permanent commissions include Dismemberment Site I (2003-2009) for <strong>The</strong><br />
Farm sculpture park, Kaipara Bay, New Zealand and Cloud Gate (2004) for the Millennium Park<br />
in Chicago.<br />
In 2012 Orbit, a commission with Cecil Balmond for the London Olympic Park, was completed.<br />
This breathtaking sculpture – thought to be the tallest in the UK - consists of a continuous<br />
looping lattice of tubular steel.<br />
In between major commissions he has exhibited extensively over the past 30 years. In 2009<br />
he was the first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.<br />
Kapoor has represented Britain at the Paris Biennale in 1982 and at the Venice Biennale in<br />
1990, where he was awarded the ‘Premio Duemila’.<br />
He has been awarded prestigious accolades from the art world including Honorary Fellowships<br />
by the London Institute and Leeds University (1997) and the Royal Institute of British<br />
Architects (2001). He was elected Royal Academician in 1999. In 2011 he was awarded the<br />
Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France and the Premium Imperiale in Japan.<br />
We are incredibly grateful to Anish Kapoor and his team for their generosity and hard work in<br />
producing Untitled for tonight’s auction.<br />
<strong>The</strong> print is a polymer gravure type etching. Each impression is inked and printed by hand using a cast–iron<br />
etching press on French BFK Rives naturel 280gsm paper.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cardinal red and warm red inks are of a traditional kind, a suspension of pigment in linseed oil supplied<br />
by Charbonnel of France.<br />
£800<br />
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