Lot 352: Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)

Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)
Stream
signed, titled and dated 'STREAM Gilbert and George 1980' (lower right)
mixed media, in sixteen parts
95 3/8 x 78 5/8in. (242 x 200cm.)
Executed in 1980, this work is unique

Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbenmuseum, Gilbert and George: Photo-Pieces 1968-1980, 1980-1981 (illustrated in colour, p. 285). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf; Bern, Kunsthalle Bern; Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou and London, Whitechapel Gallery.
London, Tate Modern, Gilbert and George: Major Exhibition, 2007-2009, no. 81 (illustrated in colour, p. 81). This exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst; Turin, Castello di Rivoli; San Francisco, De Young Fine Art Museum of San Francisco; Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum and New York, Brooklyn Museum.

C. Radcliff (ed.), Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971-1985, exh. cat., Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, 1986 (installation view in colour, pp. 9, 13 and 15, illustrated in colour, p. 136).
R. Violette and H.U. Obrist, The Words of Gilbert & George, London 1997, p. 268.
D. Farson, Gilbert and George: A Portrait, London 1999 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
F. Jonquet, Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations with François Jonquet, London 2004 (illustrated in colour, p. 121).
R. Fuchs (ed.), Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971-2005, Volume I, 1971-1988, London 2007 (installation view in colour, pp. 21, 31 and 33, illustrated in colour, p.321).

Acquired directly from the artists.
Lucio Amelio, Naples, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)
Stream
signed, titled and dated 'STREAM Gilbert and George 1980' (lower right)
mixed media, in sixteen parts
95 3/8 x 78 5/8in. (242 x 200cm.)
Executed in 1980, this work is unique