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RAQIB SHAW (B. 1974)

Death, Beauty and Justice IV

Price Realised GBP 25,000
Estimate
GBP 15,000 - GBP 20,000
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RAQIB SHAW (B. 1974)

Death, Beauty and Justice IV

Price Realised GBP 25,000
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Price Realised GBP 25,000
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RAQIB SHAW (B. 1974)
Death, Beauty and Justice IV
signed, titled and dated ' "Death, Beauty & Justice" Raqib Shaw 2007' (lower right)
acrylic, metallic paint, glitter, rhinestones and graphite on paper
32⅝ x 29½in. (83 x 75cm.)
Executed in 2007
Provenance
Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer 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.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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Lot Essay

A fearsome dragon of dazzling, shimmering colour lunges across Raqib Shaw’s Death, Beauty and Justice IV, 2007. Peacock plumes of kaleidoscopic colour tremble as the dragon surges towards a cowering man, ducking at the onslaught of piercing swords. Scattered throughout Shaw’s mythological scene are flecks of glitter and rhinestones which shine radiantly in the light. Shaw’s practice blends Eastern and Western iconographies to form unique and hedonistic dreamscapes. As curator Norman Rosenthal says, his work ‘has this air of private excess—incredibly beautiful, very cultivated, knowledgeable—and he combines the cultures of East and West in an extraordinary way. Underneath all the hysteria there’s incredible pain and a sense of loss, both personal and political, for Kashmir’ (N. Rosenthal quoted in A. Needham, ‘Raqib Shaw: Inside the Garden of Earthly Delights’, W, October 30, 2013). In 2018, Shaw’s solo exhibition Reinventing the Old Masters was held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and his works have been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Tate Britain, London, among others.
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Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot. You must pay us an extra amount equal to the resale royalty and we will pay the royalty to the appropriate authority. Please see the Conditions of Sale for further information.

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