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- Year
- 2018
- Category
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on linen
- Dimensions
- 208 × 305 cm
- Estimates
- 350,000 - 550,000$
- Result
- Upcoming
- Auction house
- Christie's Dubai
- Location
- Abu Dhabi
- Lot number
- 21
- Auction date
- Sunday, 1 Nov 2026days hours minutes seconds
- Website
- www.christies.com
- Provenance
Blain Southern, Berlin. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2018.
- About the lot
- A large-scale canvas in which fragmented figures, sweeping gestures and bird-like wings fill a dense, unstable field. The title, Latin for ‘human god’, is borrowed from Yuval Noah Harari’s 2015 book, and the painting explores humanity’s ambition to transcend its biological limits; blue and red dots at the centre allude to the ‘pixelation’ of the world. It was shown in Berlin in 2018 and in Den Bosch and Vienna in 2019.
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