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Catherine Long (© The artist)
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Catherine Long (© The artist)

Catherine Long

Artist: Marc Quinn (born 1964)

Location: Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, The Royal Pump Rooms

Date: 2000

Materials: white Macedonian marble

Dimensions: 159 x 50 x 74cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £21,000 (Total: £51,000)

Vendor: White Cube

Review number: 5037 (2002)

Provenance:
White Cube.

Description:
This work belongs to a series called 'Group Portrait' which depicts life-size marble portraits of people with missing or malformed limbs caused by illnesses, accident or birth. The figures are posed as classical figures, and the poses are chosen by the artist and the sitter. Quinn conceived the works while looking at sculptures in the British Museum and wondering whether visitors would respond differently if they were faced by a real person with missing limbs.

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