Gilbert & George valuation
Two artists making one body of work: first themselves as living sculpture, then vast gridded pictures of London's East End.
Gilbert Prousch was born in 1943 at San Martin de Tor in South Tyrol and studied art in Val Gardena, Hallein and Munich; George Passmore was born in Plymouth in 1942 and studied at Dartington and the Oxford School of Art.
What a work by Gilbert & George is worth
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Bio
Gilbert Prousch was born in 1943 at San Martin de Tor in South Tyrol and studied art in Val Gardena, Hallein and Munich; George Passmore was born in Plymouth in 1942 and studied at Dartington and the Oxford School of Art. They met as sculpture students at Saint Martin's School of Art on 25 September 1967 and have worked as a single artist ever since. In 1969 they stood on a table in matching suits, their faces and hands metallised, singing along to Underneath the Arches as The Singing Sculpture. From the 1970s they made large photographic pictures in gridded black frames, about death, hope, sex, money, race and religion, almost all set in the East End of London, where they live in Spitalfields. They won the Turner Prize in 1986 and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2005.
The picture, assembled from many panels, is the unit of their work, and it has to be complete: every panel, the original frames and the title. Their output is well documented through exhibitions and catalogues, and buyers look for a clear history from their galleries or a published exhibition. Smaller works, postcard pieces and prints also come up.
The Singing Sculpture, Tate Modern and Heneage Street
In 2007 Tate Modern gave them a retrospective and published The Complete Pictures, 1971 to 2005, which illustrates more than a thousand works.
In 2023 they opened the Gilbert & George Centre in Heneage Street, off Brick Lane, for a programme of exhibitions of their work. They were elected Royal Academicians in 2017 and resigned in 2020.
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