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Rachel Whiteread - Pandamonium 1

Charity Bears for WWF Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread

Charity Bears for WWF
Plaster and plastic (two parts)
H 30cm (x 2)

Lot no: 3

This identical pair of small white pandas with worry-ridden fiery eyes and delicate pale bodies reminds us how much of nature is fading away.

A poignant message that we cannot be blind to the fragility of our world, it also offers a sense of optimism through the fact they are together – saying ‘as long as there is a collective focus, there is hope’.

Estimated value: £5,000 - £7,000

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread was born in 1963 in London. She studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic 1982-85 and sculpture at the Slade School of Art, London, 1985-87. In 1993 Whiteread created one of her most controversial and poignant works, House, a concrete cast of the interior of a condemned terraced house in the East End of London, for which she was awarded the Turner Prize in the same year. In 1997 she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. Commissions have included Water Tower for New York City in 1994-98, the Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, completed in 2000, and the Fourth Plinth Project in Trafalgar Square in 2001. She was awarded a CBE in  2005.


Selected exhibitions
2009 Elles@Centrepompidou. Pompidou Centre, Paris
2009 Rachel Whiteread. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2007 Rachel Whiteread. Donnaregina Museum of Contemporary Art
(MADRE), Naples
2005 Embankment. Turbine Hall, Tate Modern
1996-97 Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life. Tate Liverpool

Selected collections
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Pompidou Centre, Paris
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin
National Gallery, Washington
Tate Gallery, London

Rachel Whiteread - Pandamonium

The auction

The pieces were auctioned on 12 October 2009 at Selfridges, Oxford Street, London to raise funds for WWF.

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