£3,000
MODERN MADE: Modern & Post-War Art, Design & Studio Ceramics | 677
Auction: 29 April 2022 at 11:00 BST
1/1, colour code 47, black, inscribed in pen on 'Christopher Farr' label, hand knotted and hand spun wool
Provenance:
Christopher Farr, London;
Private Collection, UK.
The ‘Door Rugs’ came about as a collaboration between Hume and the contemporary rug designer Christopher Farr, and are based on the artist’s iconic door paintings as in Lot 259.
As Farr notes what we have is ‘A door on the floor…’ where ‘metaphor and irony go hand in hand.’ Hume oversaw the process of rug making, including ‘the precise hand-carving of the two circles and rectangles of the design…in order to produce perfect proportion and tone. The result is a sublimely beautiful one colour rug.’