30th Mar, 2022 16:00

Urban and Contemporary Art

Lot 297a

Lot 297 - Faile (Collaboration), 'Butterfly Girl (II)', 2006

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Faile (Collaboration), 'Butterfly Girl (II)', 2006

Sold for £2,000
Estimated at £1,200 - £1,800

inc.premium

Condition Report

In very good condition
No knocks, tears or creases to the sheet
There is curvature to the print due it being stored rolled.

Faile (Collaboration), 'Butterfly Girl (II)', 2006, hand-embellished silkscreen with acrylic on wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered from a varied edition of 12, published by Faile Shop and released at Santa's Ghetto, 2006; sheet: 96.5 x 62.5cm

Auction: Urban and Contemporary Art, 30th Mar, 2022

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Faile

Since 1999, Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller have collaborated under the name FAILE (an anagram of “a life”) to create kinetic, image-saturated paintings, prints, sculptures, and installations. Their democratic street style features fragmented mash-ups of comic book and cartoon characters, advertising and propaganda slogans, bright patterns and colors, and historical and pop cultural references. At the beginning of their career, FAILE’s work appeared on the streets as stickers, posters, and stenciled images. Since then, the duo has enjoyed exhibitions at Tate Modern, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Brooklyn Museum, the Central Academy of Fine Art Museum in Beijing, and the Mima Museum in Brussels, among other institutions. FAILE has also produced large-scale murals and staged participatory public interventions in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Lyon, France—further blurring the lines between “high” and “low” culture.