Brian Eno Sells Paintings for $700 After Two-Day Studio Performance in London

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Brian Eno, the storied musician and certifiable Renaissance man known for his musings related to the arts, sciences, and so on, will sell a cache of paintings for just £500 each (around $666) through his gallery, Paul Stolper, in London. The online sale—starting November 12—follows a two-day performance during which Eno made more than 400 works with stencils, spray paint, and other materials including “found shapes and dried pasta.”

To make the works, Eno set out an array of wooden blocks on a large table in his London studio and overlaid them with stencils and other objects either placed or randomly dropped. He then painted them and removed certain blocks while keeping others for more work as new blank ones were added. “Throughout the process, Eno was picking out pieces as they seemed finished, leaving gaps to be filled with other blocks,” the gallery materials read. “A block stayed in circulation until it ‘got somewhere.’”

Individual Block paintings, measuring around 5 by 7 inches, are priced at £500. Other works comprising assemblages of four blocks together are £3,000 (around $3,900). The sale will be accompanied by an exhibition (from November 14 through January 17) at Paul Stolper, for which Eno has mounted other past shows including



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