Details
Helen Chadwick (1953-1996)
Piss Flowers

bronze and cellulose lacquer
27 x 23 x 23in. (70 x 65 x 65cm.)
Executed in 1991-1992, this work is number two from an edition of five plus three artist’s proofs
Provenance
Private Collection, London (acquired directly from the artist).
Anon. sale, Christie’s London, 24 September 2013, lot 18.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Stilled Lives: Helen Chadwick, exh. cat., Edinburgh, PortfolioGallery, 1996 (another from the edition illustrated, unpaged).
Exhibited
Banff, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Helen Chadwick: Piss Flowers, 1991 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated pp. 4-5).
Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Elective Affinities, 1993 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 48-51).
Essen, Museum Folkwang, effluvia Helen Chadwick, 1994, p. 67 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated p. 7, 13-16, 18). This exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Fondacio "la Caixa"and London, Serpentine Gallery.
Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum, Ars 95, 1995 (another from the edition exhibited).
Kingston, Ferens Art Gallery, Helen Chadwick, 1999, (illustrated in colour, p. 5).
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Helen Chadwick, 2004, (another from the edition illustrated, pp. 120-121, 123).
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D. Daskalopoulos Collection, 2013 (another from the edition exhibited).
London, Richard Saltoun Gallery, Helen Chadwick: Works from the Estate, 2013.

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