The 2014 Terrence Higgins Trust Auction catalogue

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