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Provenance

Frith Street Gallery, London Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Venice, Fondazione Berengo; and London, Wallace Collection, Glasstress: White Light/White Heat , June 2013 - January 2014 Manchester, The Whitworth, Cornelia Parker , February - May 2015 Boca Raton, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Glasstress Boca Raton , January - July 2017 Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, Glasstress. Window to the Future , August - September 2021 Catalogue note "The material is often where my thinking starts. I’ve used glass on a few occasions: for example, I did a piece called One Day This Glass Will Break (1995), which is a stack of glasses with a one-word engraving on each. I don’t really make things from scratch; I’d rather destroy something. The premonition that this fragile material will break is the inspiration behind my piece for Glasstress : a glass drum I call Decoy , as it lures people in to want to beat the drum, whereupon it will shatter. The drumroll will be falling glass." - Cornelia Park Additional Notices & Disclaimers Please note that Condition 12 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot.

Catalog summary

Cornelia Parker b. 1956 Decoy Murano glass and metal, in three parts 72 by 71 by 36 cm. 28⅜ by 28 by 14⅛ in. Executed in 2013, this work is unique. Provenance Frith Street Gallery, London Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited Venice, Fondazione Berengo; and London, Wallace Collection, Glasstress: White Light/White Heat , June 2013 - January 2014 Manchester, The Whitworth, Cornelia Parker , February - May 2015 Boca Raton, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Glasstress Boca Raton , January - July 2017 Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, Glasstress. Window to the Future , August - September 2021 Catalogue note "The material is often where my thinking starts. I’ve used glass on a few occasions: for example, I did a piece called One Day This Glass Will Break (1995), which is a stack of glasses with a one-word engraving on each. I don’t really make things from scratch; I’d rather destroy something. The premonition that this fragile material will break is the inspiration behind my piece for Glasstress : a glass drum I call Decoy , as it lures people in to want to beat the drum, whereupon it will shatter. The drumroll will be falling glass." - Cornelia Park Additional Notices & Disclaimers Please note that Condition 12 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot.