LOT DETAILS

Materials:

acrylic, oil, polyester resin, paper collage, glitter, map pins and elephant dung on linen

Size Notes:

canvas; overall: 99 1/4 x 71 15/16 in. 252.1 x 182.9 cm.

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 1996 on the stretcher

Exhibited:

Southampton, Southampton City Art Gallery; London, Serpentine Gallery; Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Chris Ofili, April - November 1998, pl. 14, illustrated (shown at Southampton only); London, Royal Academy of Arts; Berlin, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart; New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, September 1997 - January 2000, cat. no. 69, p. 130, illustrated in color; Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Remix: Contemporary Art & Pop, May - August 2002, cat. no. 2, p. 67, illustrated in color

Literature:

Robert Timms, Alexandra Bradley and Vicky Hayward, eds., Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade, London, 1999, p. 397, illustrated in color; Coco Fusco, "Captain Shit and Other Allegories of Black Stardom: the Work of Chris Ofili," NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art (U.S.A.), no. 10, Spring - Summer 1999, p. 42 (text); Frank Rich, "Pull the Plug on Brooklyn," The New York Times, October 9, 1999, p. 17 (text); Andrew Grossman, "Blasphemy, Pornography, Dung: Sensation," The Dartmouth Review, October 12, 1999 (text); Peter Doig, Carol Becker, David Adjaye, Okwui Enwezor, Kara Walker, Thelma Golden and Cameron Shaw, Chris Ofili, New York, 2009, p. 45, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Victoria Miro Gallery, London; The Saatchi Collection, London; Phillips de Pury & Co., New York, May 12, 2005, Lot 42; Acquired by the present owner from the above