Carroll Dunham - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, November 16, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston; Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Metro
    Pictures, New York

  • Artist Biography

    Carroll Dunham

    American • 1949

    Satire and sexuality meet Carroll Dunham's vivid brush in the artist's often large-scale fantasy worlds. His eye-popping cartoonish veneer takes a cue from Philip Guston while his primitive "visual language" of faceless figures continues a long line of tradition—think back to Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

    Though Dunham jumps between abstraction, figuration, pop, surrealism and cartoon, his works almost exclusively center on the subject of women's sexuality. He also favors painting, though he has delved into prints, works-on-paper and sculpture. His paintings can be seen as contemporary variations on nineteenth-century portraiture of women bathing, injected with similar concerns of those classical and early modernist artists.

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TwoWorks: (i) Untitled (5/22/90-5/24/90-5/21/90); (ii) Untitled (7/18/90-7/17/90)

1990

Graphite on paper.

10 3/4 x 16 1/4 in. (27.3 x 41.3 cm) each.

(i) Signed, titled and dated
“5/22/90 5/24/90 5/21/90 C. Dunham” along the upper edge; (ii) Signed, titled and dated
“7/18/90 7/17/90 C. Dunham” along the upper edge.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $6,875

Contemporary Art Part II

16 Nov 2007, 10am & 2pm
New York