Mary Boone Gallery, NY
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2006

London, Royal Academy of Arts, USA Today, October - November 2006
London, Saatchi Gallery, The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, January - May 2010
Lille, Tri Postale, La Route De La Soie/ The Silk Road, October 2010 - January 2011

Saatchi Gallery, The Shape Of Things To Come, London, 2009,  pp. 140-141, illustrated
Edward Booth-Clibborn, ed., The History of the Saatchi Gallery, London, 2011, p. 787, illustrated

This work is in good and sound condition overall. The wood, Styrofoam, and clay elements have irregular accretions of paint and staining which is inherent to the artist's working method. The hanging clay elements show evidence of previous chipping and restoration, particularly on the left side.
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Central to Bhabha’s work is the idea that materials embody a kind of mysticism or power that can be activated or enhanced through the artist’s handling. Sell The House is a small sculpture made to the scale of architectural models or museum relics. Assembled from construction staples such as wood and bricks the body of her sculpture acts as a ‘foundation’ for embellishment. Utilising the aged and weathered qualities of her materials, Bhabha heightens their totemic connotations by adding clay to create an animistic form or mask. The ‘unfinished’ appearance of the sculpture both exposes the artist’s process of making and the materiality of the construction, framing these as something cryptic, compelling, and haunting.

- Patricia Ellis