Carroll Dunham - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Nyehaus, New York
    Private Collection, United States

  • 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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Composite Image (Testicles)

2003
watercolor, acrylic and graphite on linen
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated "C.D. June '03 6/10/03" lower right.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $11,875

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John McCord
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 10 November 2015 11am