Lot 6: Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)

Gilbert & George (b. 1943 & b. 1942)
Bloody Life No. 13
signed, titled and dated 'BLOODY LIFE No.13 Sculpture Spring 1975 Gilbert and George' (lower right); titled and consecutively numbered 'BLOODY LIFE 1-16' (on the reverse of each panel)
mixed media, in sixteen parts
each: 23¾ x 19¾in. (60.4 x 50.2cm.)
overall: 98 7/8 x 83in. (251 x 211cm.)
Executed in 1975

Naples, Galleria Lucio Amelio, Bloody Life, 1975.

Gilbert & George: 1968 to 1980, exh. cat., Eindhoven, Municipal Van Abbemuseum, 1980-1981 (installation view illustrated, p. 162).
C. Ratcliff (ed). Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971-1985, exh. cat., Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1986 (illustrated in colour, p. 76).
R. Fuchs (ed.), Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971-2005, Volume I 1971-1988, London 2007 (illustrated in colour, p. 196).

Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1975.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
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)
Bloody Life No. 13
signed, titled and dated 'BLOODY LIFE No.13 Sculpture Spring 1975 Gilbert and George' (lower right); titled and consecutively numbered 'BLOODY LIFE 1-16' (on the reverse of each panel)
mixed media, in sixteen parts
each: 23¾ x 19¾in. (60.4 x 50.2cm.)
overall: 98 7/8 x 83in. (251 x 211cm.)
Executed in 1975