Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Yinka Shonibare CBE, born 1962, British

after Henry Wallis, 1830–1916, British
Title:
Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)
Date:
2011
Materials & Techniques:
Digital chromogenic print on photographic paper mounted on Diasec in black frame
Dimensions:
Frame: 58 5/8 × 71 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (148.9 × 181 × 4.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, and Friends of British Art Fund
Copyright Status:
© Copyright Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, 2011.
Accession Number:
B2016.13
Classification:
Photographs
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
chest | man | table (support furniture) | bolster (soft furnishing) | dead | bed (furniture) | manuscripts | genre subject | arsenic | pillow | vial | historical subject | broken | coat | bedroom | plant | poet | window | torn | sun | portrait | curls | candle | suicide | death
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)

Yinka Shonibare, MBE (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-01 - 2016-12-11)
Publications:
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions, New Haven, 2017, p. 27, V2724 (YCBA)

Manuela Brevi, Yinka Shonibare : tragici eroi messi in posa, Arte, no. 462, February 2012, p.104-105, V2701 (YCBA)

Ashleigh D. Coren, Resisting Homogeneity in the 21st Century, International Review of African American Art, vol. 24, 2012, p. 5, NX164 N4 B53 (HAAS)

Martina Droth, Yinka Shonibare, MBE (RA), Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp. [12-15], V 2643 (YCBA)

David Frankel, Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Artforum International, vol. 50, April 2012, p. 208-209, N1 +A814 Oversize (HAAS) Also available online

Rachel Kent, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Prestel, London, 2014, p.18-20, 204, fig. 12, NJ18.Sh645 + A12 2014a Oversize (YCBA)

Yinka Shonibare CBE, Yinka Shonibare MBE : Fabric-Ation, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, 2013, p. 36-37, 40, NJ18.Sh645 +A12 2013 Oversize (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:73007