Bruce McLean

(Scottish, born 1944)

Bruce McLean is a contemporary Scottish artist. Working across performance, sculpture, photography, and painting, he consistently challenges art world hierarchies using sharp satire and subtle subversions. McLean’s work employs the formal language and aesthetics of work he parodies, thereby confusing traditional understands of authenticity, skill, and sincerity for his audience. In one of his most iconic early works, Pose Work for Pliths 3 (1971), the artist enacted a series of increasingly playful poses atop simple white pedestals, thereby elevating and satirizing the traditional display of sculptural objects. “Pose Work for Plinths was just one of many pieces,” McLean remarked, “but it seems to have become my hit record, and it was instrumental in helping me move on to other things. I got very interested in architecture and in how you behave in different spaces.” Born in 1944 in Glasgow, United Kingdom, he studied at the Glasgow School of Art then under Anthony Caro and Phillip King at St. Martin’s School of Art in London. His works are in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Edinburgh, among others. McLean lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

Bruce McLean Artworks

Bruce McLean (571 results)

Untitled, 1985

Bruce McLean

Untitled, 1985

Sale Date: February 20, 2013

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Untitled, 1985

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Untitled, 1985

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Untitled, 1984

Bruce McLean

Untitled, 1984

Sale Date: February 20, 2013

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Horizontal Dawn (+ 2 others; 3 works, 1..., 1991

Bruce McLean

Horizontal Dawn (+ 2 others; 3 works, 1..., 1991

Sale Date: January 9, 2013

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Where do you Stand (+ Lobster Factor..., 1988–1989

Bruce McLean

Where do you Stand (+ Lobster Factor..., 1988–1989

Sale Date: November 28, 2012

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Horizontal Dawn; Vertical Dusk; Burnt (3..., 1991

Bruce McLean

Horizontal Dawn; Vertical Dusk; Burnt (3..., 1991

Sale Date: October 31, 2012

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Untitled, Grey Heads, 1981

Bruce McLean

Untitled, Grey Heads, 1981

Sale Date: September 19, 2012

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Untitled I, Untitled II & Untitled III (3 works)

Bruce McLean

Untitled I, Untitled II & Untitled III (3 works)

Sale Date: September 27, 2012

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Soldat; Sombre Sombrero, Bouyant Beret &..., 1989

Bruce McLean

Soldat; Sombre Sombrero, Bouyant Beret &..., 1989

Sale Date: September 27, 2012

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Page Three Girl, 1984

Bruce McLean

Page Three Girl, 1984

Sale Date: July 12, 2012

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Compositions with figures (2 works), 1984

Bruce McLean

Compositions with figures (2 works), 1984

Sale Date: June 18, 2012

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Pipe Smoker

Bruce McLean

Sale Date: June 21, 2012

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Room for a mean Martini, olive on onyx, 1997

Bruce McLean

Room for a mean Martini, olive on onyx, 1997

Sale Date: June 5, 2012

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Head study

Bruce McLean

Sale Date: April 25, 2012

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Pipe smoker

Bruce McLean

Sale Date: December 7, 2011

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Composition, 1980–1989

Bruce McLean

Composition, 1980–1989

Sale Date: December 3, 2011

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Hot slick, 1989

Bruce McLean

Hot slick, 1989

Sale Date: September 21, 2011

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An overshrugged shoulder (+ A stab in the..., 1993

Bruce McLean

An overshrugged shoulder (+ A stab in the..., 1993

Sale Date: June 1, 2011

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Ohne Titel (+ A fireplace for a film, lrgr;..., 1987

Bruce McLean

Ohne Titel (+ A fireplace for a film, lrgr;..., 1987

Sale Date: June 1, 2011

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Untitled

Bruce McLean

Sale Date: May 18, 2011

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Untitled

Bruce McLean

Sale Date: April 20, 2011

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Faces (+ 5 others; 6 works on 4 sheets)

Bruce McLean

Faces (+ 5 others; 6 works on 4 sheets)

Sale Date: April 20, 2011

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Two figures (+ 3 others; 4 works on 2 sheets)

Bruce McLean

Two figures (+ 3 others; 4 works on 2 sheets)

Sale Date: April 20, 2011

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Banana curtains, 1980

Bruce McLean

Banana curtains, 1980

Sale Date: April 19, 2011

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