Notes

Based on the seventeenth century painting Fall of the Damned by Peter Paul Rubens that was vandalized in 1959. The current lot formed part of the artist’s master’s degree project at the Royal College of Art, London in 1993. This was the pivotal work that resulted in his development of the themes around which his master’s degree exhibition was based. In response to this body of work he was awarded second position in the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize, after Peter Doig.¹ Other works from this series are to be found in major private collections.

¹ Regarded as Britain’s most prestigious painting prize, it is a biennial award for the best contemporary painting. The prize is named for Sir John Moores, noted philanthropist, who established the award in 1957.