£2,750
Contemporary & Post-War Art | 595
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Laser-cut relief, 331/450, signed with initials, titled and numbered in pencil to mount
Biography: Rachel Whiteread studied sculpture at Slade School of Art from 1985 to 1987 under Phyllida Barlow. In her early career she created casts of ordinary domestic objects including ‘Shallow Breath’ the cast of the underside of a bed not long after her father died. She says the casts carry ‘the residue of years and years of use’. In 1992 she exhibited at the first Young British Art show in 1992 where her exhibit ‘Ghost’ was purchased by Charles Saatchi. In 1993 Whiteread won the Turner Art Prize for ‘House’ a concrete cast of an entire terraced house in East London. She has continued to exhibit widely to include the Holocaust Monument a.k.a. Nameless Library in Vienna; Embankment (2005) a commission to fill the vast Turbine Hall at Tate Modern and ‘Cabin’ a concrete reverse cast of a wooden shed located on Governors Island, New York. Whiteread was appointed a Dame of the Oder of the British Empire for services to art in the 2019 Birthday Honours. Her work is represented in many public collections worldwide to include National Gallery of Art, Washington and Tate Gallery, London.