SOLD - Red Eight by Richard Wentworth - SOLD
Description
Limited edition artist's proof lithograph, signed on the reverse side.
Size 325mm 326mm Lithograph
Comes in presentation folder
Please see the attached provenance provided by Bonham's auctioneers
About Richard Wentworth
Wentworth was born in Samoa—then a province of New Zealand—in 1947. He studied art at Hornsey College of Art in North London from 1965, and then at the Royal College of Art where he was a contemporary of Zoë Wanamaker and Tony Scott.
Between 1971 and 1987, Wentworth taught at Goldsmiths College and his influence has been claimed in the work of the Young British Artists. From 2002 to 2010, Wentworth was 'Master o
f Drawing' at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University and was the head of the Sculpture department at The Royal College of Art, London from 2009 - 2011.
Since the early 1970s Wentworth has been capturing chance encounters of oddities and discrepancies in the modern landscape in the ongoing photographic series known as Making Do and Getting By. Mundane snapshots and fragments of the modern landscape are elevated to an analysis of human resourcefulness and improvisation, whereby amusing oddities that would otherwise go by unnoticed become the subject of intent contemplation.
In the early 1980s Wentworth became identified with the New British Sculpture movement. Wentworth’s interest is the juxtaposition of materials and found elements that do not belong together.[according to whom?] In the work Shower, Wentworth attached a small propeller to an ordinary table creating the impression that the furniture is about to take flight.[citation needed] For his 1995 solo show at the Lisson Galleryhe created False Ceiling a flock of books suspended by wire from the gallery’s ceiling.[citation needed] For Art and Sacred Places in Winchester Cathedral he created Recall which speculated how the structure of the Cathedral might have been supported during its construction.[citation needed] Wentworth is also interested in the bizarre coincidences of urban life. His ongoing series of photographs, Making Do and Getting By (1974 onwards), captures the provisional ways in which people modify their local environment. In April 2010, Wentworth participated in a major sculpture exhibition curated by Peter Kardia entitled "From Floor to Sky", alongside artists Roderick Coyne and Alison Wilding.[citation needed] He is represented in London by Lisson Gallery and in New York City by Peter Freeman, Inc.
Wentworth was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to art.
