5 January 2023
Phillips will celebrate 10 years of Editions auctions in London with an Evening Sale led by David Hockney and Andy Warhol and featuring a selection of works from Contemporary British artists Banksy, Cecily Brown, Grayson Perry, and Rachel Whiteread, as well as a group of important Modern works by Pablo Picasso.
5 January 2023
Rachel Whiteread
Modern Chess Set
2005
The complete chess set of 32 pieces in mixed media and board comprised of carpet, linoleum, plywood and
beechwood, with accompanying instruction manual, all contained in the original foam
–
lined and printed wooden
crate.
dimensio
ns variable, black king 12 cm (4 3/4 in.) height
board 60.3 x 66 x 2.5 cm (23 3/4 x 25 7/8 x 7/8 in.)
crate 23.5 x 80.5 x 41 cm (9 1/4 x 31 3/4 x 16 1/8 in.)
Signed, dated and numbered ‘6’ in black ink on the accompanying Certificate of Authenticity, from
the edition of
7 (there were also 3 artist’s proofs), published by RS&A Ltd., London.
Estimate
£6,000
–
8,000
22 December 2022
Phyllida Barlow, Alison Wilding, and Rachel Whiteread, 2022. Photo: Alice Lubbock
7 October 2022
Leading British artist Rachel Whiteread DBE has been awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2022 by the Government Art Collection (GAC), it was announced today.
7 October 2022
Rachel Whiteread
Untitled (Bubble), 2022
Lithograph on Somerset white velvet paper
70 x 49cm
Edition of 30 + 6 Aps
Rachel Whiteread is represented by
Gagosian, London
Luhring Augustine, New York
Lorcan O’Neill, Rome
23 May 2021
Destroyed cabins, rubber tanks and a camera obscura.
20 April 2021
Rachel Whiteread’s latest exhibition, “Internal Objects’, is an ode to lost bodies and the ghosts of our language. Showing now at Gagosian in London, Whiteread’s sculpture gives a unique incarnation to the uncanny, through its focus on the specific process by which familiar shapes and objects can be made alien to their observer.
30 March 2021
Pallant House Gallery has announced a unique response to creativity during the coronavirus pandemic. The Gallery has commissioned a model art gallery that will feature original miniature artworks from over 30 leading contemporary British artists
23 March 2021
Gagosian is to present Innovate, Originate, Overturn: Modern and Contemporary Pioneers, an exclusive online project for Art Basel’s launch of OVR: Pioneers. The presentation will include works by Helen Frankenthaler, Theaster Gates, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Nam June Paik, and Rachel Whiteread.
8 March 2021
Gagosian is to present Internal Objects, an exhibition of new work by Rachel Whiteread. Whiteread employs the formal language of Minimalism, taking cues from its emphasis on geometric seriality, yet adds a quietly emotive aspect, maintaining an acute sensitivity to objects’ minor details and subtle markers of use and human irregularity.
8 March 2021
Rachel Whiteread, Poltergeist , 2020 (detail), corrugated iron, beech, pine, oak, household paint, and mixed media, 120 1/8 × 110… Read More
23 October 2020
Gagosian’s second season of Artist Spotlight, a series that focuses on individual artists for one week each month presents a never-before-seen sculpture by Rachel Whiteread.
19 October 2020
RACHEL WHITEREAD Untitled (Pinboard), 2019 Resin and cement compound 43 3/8 x 96 7/8 x 4 in 110 x 246.1… Read More
19 October 2020
RACHEL WHITEREAD Photo: Werner Hannapel Courtesy Gagosian
21 September 2020
Migrate Art presents ‘Scorched Earth’ a charity auction and exhibition of new works by leading artists, organised in direct response to the widespread deliberate destruction of crop fields in Iraq. The participating artists have created new works using paint pigmented with ash collected by Migrate Art from land scorched by these fires.
24 February 2020
Breaking the Mould is the first extensive survey of post-war British sculpture by artists identifying as women in a public institution.
9 January 2019
The Whitechapel Gallery has just announced that Rachel Whiteread is the sixth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award in partnership with Swarovski.
6 November 2018
The Word is Art is a fascinating global overview of how contemporary artists incorporate text and language into work that speaks to some of the most pressing issues of the 21st century
28 August 2018
Artworks by major contemporary British artists including Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread and Tracey Emin have been given a permanent home at Pallant House Gallery. The six works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Peter Blake, Rachel Whiteread, Gavin Turk and Michael Craig Martin are a gift to the Gallery from Frank and Lorna Dunphy under the Cultural Gifts Scheme.
3 May 2018
Internationally acclaimed artists Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Robert Gober, Antony Gormley, Roni Horn, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Taryn Simon, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rachel Whiteread are among the 37 artists who have given works to create a major new fund ARTISTS FOR ARTANGEL.
14 January 2018
20p coins, war, broken assemblages, experimental photography, a human fountain and yellow.
27 September 2017
What makes a top show? Most obviously, quality and presentation. Matthew Collings is good on the former; and knocking down walls to put all the work in one opened-up space works wonderfully.
11 September 2017
The new retrospective of artist Rachel Whiteread does not bear a title, leaving it to her name to do the talking
