Bronze Sculpture for Sale
The Shape of You,
2003
Sarah Lucas
Fine Art Drawings : marker
55 x 45 x 1 cm 21.7 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
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About the artwork
Type
Unique artwork
Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
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Medium
Dimensions cm • inch
55 x 45 x 1 cm 21.7 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
Support
Framing
Black frame with plexiglass
Artwork dimensions including frame
60 x 50 x 3 cm 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang
Artwork location: Switzerland
This original drawing by Sarah Lucas is executed in black felt-tip pen on paper and exemplifies the artist's direct, provocative, and conceptually charged visual language. Reduced to a few confident, continuous lines, the composition transforms minimal mark-making into a powerful statement that balances wit, sexuality, and formal restraint. Through apparent simplicity, the work engages with questions of gender, identity, and representation.
The handwritten inclusion of the artist's name reinforces the personal and performative character of the work, blurring the line between image, signature, and statement.
Notably, this drawing was specially created by Sarah Lucas for a fellow German artist, adding an intimate layer of provenance and underscoring the work's character as a direct, personal gesture rather than a detached studio production.
The work is professionally framed in our own frame-shop, under a measure made passe-partout, in a deep, hand-crafted, exclusive black wooden frame with Plexiglass® Optical HC. Size framed approx. 60 x 50 cm.
Sarah Lucas (born 1962) is one of the leading figures of the Young British Artists (YBAs) and is internationally renowned for her radical use of everyday materials, irreverent humor, and uncompromising examination of social and sexual politics. Her drawings, like her sculptures and installations, play a crucial role in her practice, revealing the immediacy and intelligence behind her artistic thinking.
Authenticity and provenance guaranteed. Delivered with a certificate of authenticity. Worldwide shipping, tax-friendly to the USA and EU countries.
Custom handmade framing available on request.
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Sarah Lucas is an English sculptor, installation artist and photographer. She emerged as one of the major Young British Artists during the 1990s, with a body of highly provocative work. In the early 1990s she began using furniture as a substitute for the human body, usually with crude genital punning. In works such as Bitch (table, t-shirt, melons, vacuum-packed smoked fish, 1995), she merges low-life misogynist tabloid culture with the economy of the ready-made, with the intention of confronting sexual stereotyping. As with earlier works in which she had displayed enlarged pages from the Sunday Sport newspaper, the intention was to attack stereotyping on its own ground, using a base language given critical viability by an affinity to previous movements such as Situationism and Surrealism. She is also known for her confrontational self-portraits, such as Human Toilet Revisited (1998), a color photograph in which she sits on a toilet smoking a cigarette. In her 2000 solo exhibition The Fag Show, she explored her obsession with cigarettes as a material for art, suggesting the connection between smoking and sexually obsessive activity. The morbidity and provocative nature of her work has often elicited comparisons with Francis Bacon and Damien Hirst—her androgynous occupation of this masculine low-life domain gives her work much of its critical character. In 1996 she was the subject of a BBC documentary, Two Melons and a Stinking Fish.
Young British Artists (YBAs)
Conceptual Art
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