ready-made oil painting on canvas, maple
with acrylic top
17 x 33 x 17 in. (43.2 x 83.8 x 43.2 cm)
signed and dated Constantin Boym 06 and inscribed Copia de A. BARON
unique piece

MOSS, New York

S. Lidgus, "Schock of the Nude. The Boyms convert old masters into furniture," i.D. Magazine, New York, December 2006, p. 17 (for a discussion of the series)

New York, MOSS, The Ultimate Art Furniture, November-December 2006

Christie's would like to thank Constantin Boym for his assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.

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"With his Ultimate Art Furniture, Constantin Boym uses the painted canvas - in this case exuberant, heartfelt renditions of Baroque religious-themed masterworks, as a ‘new material’, Art, with which to construct furniture. In response (or as retaliation?) to the Art World’s appropriation of Design, wherein a wooden chair, for example, is placed on a pedestal and subsequently experienced as abstract sculpture, Boym reverses the process: Art is torn from the wall, ripped from its frame, and wrought – albeit most respectfully and sensitively – into what we now experience as a chair or a table." - Murray Moss

The 'Ultimate Art Furniture' Series was designed for MOSS design store in New York in 2006. Each piece is unique and features a copy of a Baroque painting, the present lot with Saint Andrew by Spanish painter Jusepe di Ribera (1631).