Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Mumbai, India. Her mother was the Iraqi Jewish daughter of a rabbi who had immigrated to India from Baghdad with her family when she was a child. Her Hindu father was a hydrographer for the Indian Navy, who spent much of Kapoor's childhood on the ocean collecting data and charting marine navigation. Both her parents were very modern and cosmopolitan and sent Anish and her younger brother IIan to the prestigious Doon School, an all-boys boarding school in Dehra Dun. Because of this exclusive upbringing, combined with the diversity and foresight within his own family, Kapoor spent his childhood feeling like an outsider unsure of his identity within Indian society. In her late teens, her sense of not belonging developed into deep internal turmoil. Consequentially, Kapoor spent the next 15 years in psychoanalytic therapy, acquiring the tools needed to cope with his derangement.
Following the post-minimalist tradition, Kapoor paid homage to faith of minimalism in “weightless” volumes, abstraction, specific materials, saturated color and simplicity of form. Many of Kapoor's sculptures, however, appear intensely heavy in both material and meaning and thus share little of the post-minimalist material exploration. Furthermore, unlike the young British artists who took the art world by storm during the 90s with their instantly shocking art, Kapoor preferred a more delicate approach – drawing his audience with forms capable of reflecting emotions.
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Some awards from recent years.
Untitled 1993 – Stone (sandstone) (81 x 94 x 119 cm).
Clearing price: €181.544 ($200.000) Price including charges: €226.930 ($250.000) Estimate: €136.158 – €226.930 ($150.000 – $250.000 ) Christie's , 14/11/2019 New York, United States
Notes: Celant pp.148-149Origin: The artist. Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007Exposure: New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Anish Kapoor, December 1993-January 1994.
untitled, 2018 – Mixed technique sculpture (canvas, resin & pigment) (57 x 42 x 25 cm)
Clearing price: €112.278 (£100.000) Price including charges: €140.347 (£125.000) Estimate: €112.278 – €168.417 (£100.000 – £150.000) Sotheby's, 04/10/2019London, United Kingdom
Notes: Property Sold to Benefit the Aortic Center TrustOrigin: Courtesy of the artist.
untitled, 1996 – Aluminum, pigment (200,7 x 200,7 x 25,4 cm)
Clearing price: €561.612 (£500.000) Price including charges: €690.782 (£615.000) Estimate: €561.612 – €786.256 (£500.000 – £700.000) Phillips, 02/10/2019London, UK
Origin: Lisson Gallery, London; Private Collection, France; Private Collection, Switzerland; Phillips, London, 27 June 2013, lot 11; Acquired at the above sale by the present ownerExposure: London, Hayward Gallery, 1998.
Untitled from 1,000 Names, 1984 – Mixed technique sculpture (polystyrene, plaster, cloth, plaster & raw pigment) (69 x 69 x 83 cm)
Clearing price: €136.252 ($152.000) Price including charges: €168.074 ($187.500) Estimate: €134.459 – €224.098 ($150.000 – $250.000 ) Leslie Hindman Inc., 22-05-2019Chicago IL, United States
Origin: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York; Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1985Exposure: New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 1984.
untitled, 2010 – Stainless steel, gold (129,5 x 129,5 x 24,1 cm)
Clearing price: €672.000 ($750.000) Price including charges: €810.880 ($905.000) Estimate: €672.000 – €896.000 ($750.000 – $1.000.000 ) Christie's , 12/05/2015 New York, United States
Signed dated “Kapoor 2010” / verso.
pool, 2003 – Metal (stainless steel and lacquer) (230 x 230 x 53 cm)
Clearing price: €704.820 (£600.000) Price including charges: €847.986 (£721.875) Estimate: €587.350 – €822.290 (£500.000 – £700.000) Christie's , 25/06/2013London, United Kingdom
Notes: Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, 2006, p.460.
Some data on the growth rate:
In 2001: 320%; in 2007: 840%; in 2011: – 33%; in 2014: 33%; in 2017: -34%; in 2018: 158%; in 2019: -35%.
