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Rachel Whiteread(British, born 1963)Model III
2006
2006
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27 June 2018, 17:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£60,000 - £80,000
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Rachel Whiteread (British, born 1963)
Model III
2006
plaster, wood and aluminium, in eight parts
21 by 40 by 20 cm.
8 1/4 by 15 3/4 by 7 7/8 in.
This work was executed in 2006.
2006
plaster, wood and aluminium, in eight parts
21 by 40 by 20 cm.
8 1/4 by 15 3/4 by 7 7/8 in.
This work was executed in 2006.
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Provenance
Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome
Private Collection, USA
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Rome, Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, New Sculptures and Drawings, 2007
London, Saatchi Gallery, Post Pop: East meets West, 2014-2015, p. 86, illustrated in colour
Rachel Whiteread's works, such as Model III from 2006, are imbued with a transformative quality that infuses the everyday with a sublime poetry. Made of the simplest industrial materials they render tangible the typically invisible negative space surrounding an object. Whether large or intimate and domestic, they are suffused with a significance and beauty that transcends the humble materials from which they are formed, marking the artist as one of our most important and relevant contemporary sculptors.
Executed from plaster, aluminium and wood, Model III is from a series of small-scale sculptures whose individual components are evocative of a traditional still life. However, the seven seemingly familiar forms positioned here on a shelf, ghost-like in terms of form and tone, are suggestive rather than intentionally representational, and invite contemplation from the viewer. In capturing and solidifying the intangible, Whiteread's works are a reflection on the architecture of form and the metaphysical space that lies beyond it.
Whiteread is best known and recognised for House, a monumental concrete cast of the interior of a condemned Victorian terrace house, in East London, a work which saw her receive the accolade of being the first ever female Turner Prize winner in 1993. She has also represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1997, and has been celebrated in solo exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. In 2001 Whiteread was invited to produce a work for the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square and the subsequent sculpture, entitled Untitled Monument, was cast from transparent resin as the gigantic inverse of the plinth that supported it. Late last year, Whiteread was the subject of a critically acclaimed career retrospective at the Tate Britain, London, which will travel to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., this autumn.
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