Description of one of collective's works auctioned at Christie's in November, 2011.

Incident in a Museum VI is a unique, large-scale painting by the British collective, Art & Language. Created in 1986 over three inserted and intersecting canvases, the work presents a museum gallery, here based on the internal architecture of the Whitney Museum, New York. The heavy, stone floors and coffered ceilings of the Whitney are instantly recognizable, but sheathed in an unnatural, highly gestural palette of blue and white. Upon the wall of the museum is a painting, one of the collective's own, installed in some imaginary retrospective; the attendant irony being that as a British assembly, Art & Language would never be granted such an eChristie's Auction Records
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