Carroll Dunham - Editions New York Wednesday, June 8, 2011 | Phillips

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    Allison Kemmerer A12

  • 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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Untitled

1988-89
Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and spit-bite in sepia, on Arches En Tout Cas paper, with full margins,
I. 40 1/2 x 60 3/4 in. (102.9 x 154.3 cm);
S. 49 3/4 x 68 3/4 in. (126.4 x 174.6 cm)

signed, dated '1988-89' and numbered 19/53 in pencil (there were also 9 artist's proofs), published by Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York, several soft handling creases in the margins, otherwise in very good condition, unframed.

Estimate
$3,000 - 4,000 

Editions

8 June 2011 New York