A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection
Sophie Calle
The Birthday Ceremony (1991)
Auction Closed
February 22, 03:50 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection
Sophie Calle
b. 1953
The Birthday Ceremony (1991)
glass cabinet containing various objects in ten parts: pair of pink matador’s stockings; matador’s hat; hand-embroidered matador’s cape; work by Greg Shephard (plaster, wax, plastic, and iron); third volume of the complete works of Franz Kafka (Editions La Pléiade); stuffed rooster (taxidermic); leaflet for Vedette washing machine; album of photos dated August 1931; pair of Stephane Kélian high-heeled shoes; boxed se🦋t of two compact discs: Elvis Presley’s All Time Greatest Hits
67 by 33 by 18 ½ in.
170.2 by 83.8 by 47 cm.
Executed in 1997, this work is unique.
White Cube, London
Acqui🍸red from the 𒆙above in June 1999 by the present owner
James Putnam, Art and Artifacts: The Museum as Medium, London 2001, p. 70, illustrated in color
Uta Grosenick, ed., Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century, New York 2001, pp. 73-74, illustrated in color
London, Tate Britain, The Birthday Ceremony, June-August 1998
Paris, Centre National de la Photographie, Doubles-jeux, September-November 1998
London, Camden Arts Center, Double Game, February-March 1999
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Sophie Calle: Double Game, February-March 2001ꦅ, pꦍp. 222-223, illustrated in color