6th May, 2021 12:00

From the Curious to the Extraordinary

 
  Lot 62
 

'BANQUET FROM THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS' BY VIKTOR WYND (BRITISH)

'BANQUET FROM THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS' BY VIKTOR WYND (BRITISH)

a set of unglazed porcelain figures, the various miniature mythological and grotesque creatures modelled sitting around a table,

6 separate pieces, the table 12cm long

Please note this lot is subject to VAT on the hammer price at 20%.

Provenance: Viktor Wynd’s Museum, London.

Wynd writes: "I have worked with porcelain of and on since art school, since 2019 I have been working on a porcelain ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’ made up of strange creatures and tableau that appear from as if out of the clay itself in my left hand"

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is a contemporary reinterpretation of a Pre-Enlightenment Wunderkabinett or Cabinet of Curiosities. It is the creation of artist and writer Viktor Wynd, who has just opened a Falmouth branch of his museum inside the National Maritime Museum. His most recent book 'The UnNatural History Museum' was published by Prestel in 2020.

Sold for £225

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