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WORKS FROM THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF SUTAPA BISWAS
SONIA BOYCE (B. 1962)
From Someone Else's Fear Fantasy (A Case of Mistaken Identity? Well This Is No Bed Of Roses) To Metamorphosis
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SONIA BOYCE (B. 1962)
From Someone Else's Fear Fantasy (A Case of Mistaken Identity? Well This Is No Bed Of Roses) To Metamorphosis
signed twice, titled and dated ''SONIA BOYCE 'FROM SOMEONE ELSE'S FEAR FANTASY (A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY? WELL THIS IS NO BED OF ROSES) TO METAMORPHOSIS' 1987 S. Boyce' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
acrylic, graphite, ink and felt-tip pen on photograph, in artist's frame
overall: 50 3⁄8 x 34 1/8in. (127.9 x 86.8cm.)
Executed in 1987
From Someone Else's Fear Fantasy (A Case of Mistaken Identity? Well This Is No Bed Of Roses) To Metamorphosis
signed twice, titled and dated ''SONIA BOYCE 'FROM SOMEONE ELSE'S FEAR FANTASY (A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY? WELL THIS IS NO BED OF ROSES) TO METAMORPHOSIS' 1987 S. Boyce' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
acrylic, graphite, ink and felt-tip pen on photograph, in artist's frame
overall: 50 3⁄8 x 34 1/8in. (127.9 x 86.8cm.)
Executed in 1987
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
Literature
K. Mercer, Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s, Durham 2016, p. 59-60, fig. 2.3 (illustrated in colour, p. 61).
E. Ridgway and C.J. Martin, Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, exh. cat. Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, 2022, p. 55 (illustrated in colour, p. 48).
E. Ridgway and C.J. Martin, Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, exh. cat. Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, 2022, p. 55 (illustrated in colour, p. 48).
Exhibited
Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Impossible Self, 1988 (illustrated, p. 33). This exhibition later travelled to Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery.
London, Hayward Gallery, The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, 1989-1990, p. 152, no.6. This exhibition later travelled to Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery and Cornerhouse.
London, Hayward Gallery, The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, 1989-1990, p. 152, no.6. This exhibition later travelled to Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery and Cornerhouse.
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