Kiss

Marc Quinn (born 1964)

Museums Sheffield: Graves Gallery

2001

The artist establishes a close relationship with his sitters, in this case Matt Fraser and Catherine Long which lends the work a penetrating perceptiveness. Quinn was inspired by classical sculptures in the British Museum, contemplating the differences between the reactions people have to a sculpture without limbs and seeing a person missing an arm or a leg. Quinn's use of this almost luminous superwhite marble highlights his subversion of the heroic and the beautiful even further.

• Medium: carrara marble
• Dimensions: 184 x 64 x 64cm
• Art Fund Grant: £62750 ( Total: £93,750)
• ArtFunded in: 2004
• Vendor: White Cube

Provenance

White Cube.

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