Sarah Lucas
Eating a Banana
About this artwork
This work belongs to a set of twelve photographic prints that shows the artist adopting various poses. In them she plays around with various ideas of femininity and masculinity, all the time testing the boundaries of what is supposedly the norm. In this, the earliest photograph, Lucas eats a banana in a suggestive manner and looks out at the viewer in a knowing way.
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artist:Sarah Lucas (born 1962) English
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title:Eating a Banana
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date created:1990
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materials:Colour IRIS print
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measurements:53.00 x 60.00 cm (paper 56.20 x 76.20 cm)
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credit line:Presented by Sadie Coles HQ, 2003
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accession number:GMA 4679 B
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas
Lucas was born in London and studied at Goldsmiths College, London. In the early 1990s she began using the Sunday Sport tabloid newspaper as source material, reproducing pages containing stories about sex scandals and sensationalistic photographs of naked women. In 1993 Lucas founded The Shop ...
