SARAHLUCAS(b. 1962)Summer.C-print.48 ½ x 42 ⅛ in. (123.2 x 107 cm).Executed in 1998.This work is from an edition of six plus one artist's proof and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.Provenance
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New YorkExhibited
New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Sarah Lucas: The Old In and Out, September 12- October 17, 1998 (another example exhibited)
Barcelona, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Sarah Lucas: Self Portraits and More Sex, October 9, 2000-January 7, 2001, p. 47, no. 24 (another example exhibited; illustrated)Literature
V. Combalia, Sarah Lucas: Self-Portraits and More Sex, Barcelona 2000, p. 47, no. 24 (illustrated)"Sarah Lucas' self-portraits enjoyed a swift success d'estime as well as a rare success commercial and can now be seen for the first time by the Spaniash Public, bear out the description of "urban, cocky, female, fearless" to describe most of the female British artists of Sarah's generation. However , upon closer scrutiny they go well beyond the mere visual shock produced by a sometimes explicit or scatalogcal sense of humor. They display not only close connections with similar works in the history of art but also a good deal of iconographical innovation" (V. Cambria, Sarah Lucas: Self-Portraits and More Sex, Barcelona 2000).

Lucas' oeuvre of confrontational self-portraiture and genital punning has been acclaimed for its ribaldry., Several moving photographic self-portraits imply a grudging introspection, as if she were feeling a need to question her façade of toughness. Since the 1990's Lucas has created a series of self-portrait photographs with a seemingly aggressive stance. (Sarah Lucas taken from K. Lauer, C. Meyer Soll and N.G. Schneider, Art from the UK, Munich, p. 134)

"I think each artwork is a description of something quite particular. I don't decide exactly what I'm going to describe, it's not as simple as that I make the things that I can make. Partly because I want to make them, but sometimes, once they start happening they tell me what I'm describing. It's a mixture. Things are pushing forwards between me and how things actually shape up. What finally gets described in the art-work" (ibid.).