Clive Barker British, b. 1940
Dog's Dinner, 1998
Mixed media
H: 6.5 cm; Diameter: 25.2 cm
Signed and dated underneath
Ed. 1/3
Ed. 1/3
Barker emerged as a Pop Artist during the 1960s when he was exhibiting with the legendary Robert Fraser Gallery. Known as the artistic heir to Marcel Duchamp and the forerunner...
Barker emerged as a Pop Artist during the 1960s when he was exhibiting with the legendary Robert Fraser Gallery. Known as the artistic heir to Marcel Duchamp and the forerunner of Jeff Koons, Barker forged a career spanning five decades. Barker is known as a Pop Artist with affiliations to Surrealism and Conceptual art.
Dog’s Dinner represents Barker’s ability to bestow an almost comical dignity to the banal and mundane.
Clive Barker's work is in museum collections worldwide including: Tate, London; British Museum, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Staedtische Kunsthalle Mannheim; Museum fuer Modern Kunst, Frankfurt; National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Museu Coleção Berardo, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Lisbon; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
Dog’s Dinner represents Barker’s ability to bestow an almost comical dignity to the banal and mundane.
Clive Barker's work is in museum collections worldwide including: Tate, London; British Museum, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Staedtische Kunsthalle Mannheim; Museum fuer Modern Kunst, Frankfurt; National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Museu Coleção Berardo, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Lisbon; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
Literature
FERMON, An Jo and Marco LIVINGSTONE. Clive Barker. Sculpture. Catalogue raisonné 1958- 2000. Milan, 2002, cat. no. 321, p. 156, ill.