Britain is Best

Name: GRAYSON PERRY (b. 1960)
Brand: Britain is Best
Price: 40000.00 GBP
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Closed: 14 Mar 2023

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GRAYSON PERRY (b. 1960)

Britain is Best

Closed: 14 Mar 2023

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GRAYSON PERRY (b. 1960)
Britain is Best
embroidery, glass beads and sequins on linen, 2014, signed and numbered 6/20 in pencil on the accompanying certificate of authenticity, published by Paragon Press, London, in a bespoke frame designed by the artist
Tapestry 1185 x 985 mm.
Frame 1275 x 1072 mm.

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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Please note that this work is accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity.

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Lot Essay

'These are five loyalists from East Belfast. Four of them participated in a march I witnessed commemorating the centenary of the founding of the Ulster Volunteer Force and I was fascinated by how exotic it felt. Ironically, being fervently patriotic is not a particularly British trait. Their portrait is in the form of an embroidered banner that might be carried aloft on a march. I deliberately chose a very colourful and jolly style as the murals that are everywhere in East Belfast veer heavily towards the dour and aggressive.'
Grayson Perry