Lot 288
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Yinka Shonibare (b. 1962)
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Yinka Shonibare (b. 1962)

(i) Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 11.00 hours (ii) Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 14.00 hours (iii) Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 17.00 hours (iv) Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 19.00 hours (v) Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 03.00 hours

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Yinka Shonibare (b. 1962)
(i) Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 11.00 hours
(ii) Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 14.00 hours
(iii) Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 17.00 hours
(iv) Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 19.00 hours
(v) Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 03.00 hours
five chromagenic prints
each: 48 x 72in. (121.9 x 182.9cm.)
Executed in 1998, these works are number three from an edition of five (5)
Provenance
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in July 1999.
Literature
D. Nahas, "Yinka Shonibare at Brent Sikkema," Art in America, January 2000, no. 1, p. 121.
P. Holmes, "The Empire's New Clothes," ARTnews, October 2002, vol. 101, no. 9, pp. 118-121 ((v) illustrated in colour, p. 121).
J. Weinstein, "Yinka Shonibare, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York," Artforum, May 2002, vol. XL, no. 9, p. 175 ((i) illustrated in colour).
Exhibited
London, The Photographers' Gallery, The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 1999, February-March 1999 (another from the edition exhibited).
Harlem, Studio Museum, Yinka Shonibare, January-March 2002 (another from the edition exhibited).
Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Yinka Shonibare, Double Dress, January-June 2003 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Milan, Padiglione d'arte contemporanea.
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Please note that the works are in artist frames.
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Lot Essay

This photographic series was originally exhibited as posters on the London Underground, commissioned by inIVA, London. The series was the result of Shonibare's three day performance as a Victorian dandy at a stately home in Herefordshire. The series of five large photographs was exhibited in 1999-2000 in a touring exhibition at the Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham; the Laing Art Gallery, Higham Place in Newcastle upon Tyne and at the Towner Art Gallery and Museum in Eastbourne.

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