LOT DETAILS

Materials:

fibreglass, resin, paint and wigs

Measurements:

90.16 in. (229.00 cm.) (height) by 87.80 in. (223.00 cm.) (width) by 56.69 in. (144.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Victoria Miro, Great Deeds Against the Dead, Jake and Dinos Chapman , 1994. London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chapmanworld , 1996-1997 (illustrated in color, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to Graz, Grazer Kunstverein and Berlin, Kunst-Werke. New York, Gagosian Gallery, Dinos & Jake Chapman Six Feet Under , 1997, no. xviii (illustrated in color, p. 100). London, Royal Academy of Arts, Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection , 1997, no. 15 (illustrated in color, p. 65). London, Saatchi Gallery, Chapman Brothers: Retrospective , 2003-2004, p. 16 (illustrated in color, p. 17; detail illustrated in color, pp. 18-19; detail illustrated on the front and back covers). Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People , 2006-2007, p. 145 (illustrated in color, p. 36). Hobart, MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), Monanism: An Evolving Exhibition , 2011. Hobart, MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), Theatre of the World , 2012-2013, p. 107, no. 374 (illustrated in color, p. 107)

Literature:

R. Timms, A. Bradley and V. Hayward (eds.), Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade , London 1999 (illustrated in color, pp. 184-185). Saatchi Gallery (ed.), 100 The Work that Changed British Art , London 2003, no. 23 (illustrated in color, p. 53). Jake and Dinos Chapman: Explaining Christians to Dinosaurs , exh. cat., Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2005 (illustrated in color, p. 15). E. Booth-Clibborn (ed.), The History of the Saatchi Gallery , London 2011 (installation view illustrated in color, p. 399). D. Walsh and E. Pearce, Monanisms , Hobart 2011, pp. 365 and 371 (illustrated in color, p. 96; installation view illustrated, p. 333)

Provenance:

Victoria Miro, London. Saatchi Collection, London. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005