Lot 419

SIR GRAYSON PERRY C.B.E., R.A. (BRITISH 1960-) §
'AWFUL AND SIMPLE LIKE MURDER' VASE, 1987


























Auction: Day Two | Lots 100 to 527 | Fri 31 October from 10am
Description
impressed maker's seal, glazed earthenware
Dimensions
35cm high, 18cm wide (13 ¾in high, 7in wide)
Provenance
Private Collection, London.
Footnote
Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Grayson Perry: Guerrilla Tactics, 18 May 2002 - 25 August 2002, no.7.
'Pots suit the scale of my ideas, they inhibit an intimate intellectual space, there is no bombastic confrontation, one is charmed into picking up my ideas from a pot….From the very first plate I made at evening classes emblazoned with a crude crucifixion and the words KINKY SEX I have used imagery that some people find disturbing. I use such material not to deliberately shock but because sex, war and gender are subjects that are part of me and fascinate me and I feel I have something to say about them.' (Grayson Perry in Guerrilla Tactics, op.cit., pp.14 and 45).

























