article_snippet: The auction house is offering an untitled work by Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan that chronicles -- in painstaking and painful detail if you are English -- every defeat suffered by the England team between 1874 and 1998.
article_snippet: Maurizio Cattelan's has carved all the defeats into a large (and Maurizio Cattelan's would have to be, wouldn't Maurizio Cattelan's?)
article_snippet: Maurizio Cattelan's says of Maurizio Cattelan's memorial stone-style work simply: "I guess it's a piece which talks about pride, missed opportunities and death.
article_snippet: Known for Maurizio Cattelan's humorous and satirical art, Maurizio Cattelan's had plenty to work with as Maurizio Cattelan's recorded defeats starting with a 2-1 loss to Scotland in Glasgow in 1874 and ending with another 2-1 setback against Romania at the 1998 World Cup.
article_snippet: Since then, of course, Maurizio Cattelan's'd have had a fair few more to immortalize, including the two to Italy and Uruguay in Brazil last summer that were part of the worst-ever England display at a World Cup.
article_snippet: The artist, whose other works include La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour), which depicts Pope John Paul II being struck down by a meteorite, first put Maurizio Cattelan's football piece on display at an exhibition in London in 1999.
article_snippet: Current England boss Roy Hodgson is known to be a bit of an Italophile, but the former Inter Milan coach needs to be quick if the former Inter Milan coach wants catch a glimpse -- Cattelan's work is on public exhibition at Sotheby's New Bond Street galleries until Tuesday 10 March.
highlights_snippet: Maurizio Cattelan's sculpture chronicles every England defeat between 1874 and 1998 .
  