Inka Essenhigh - Contemporary Art Evening Sale New York Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Private collection, London

  • Exhibited


    London, Victoria Miro Gallery, Inka Essenhigh, October 29 - December 7, 2002

  • Catalogue Essay


    Essenhigh sees her canvases as an arena for action. In her enamel paintings, the background or “stage” is always generic. The action is superimposed on these neutral surfaces. Essenhigh connects these figures with harnesses and wires, the lines of which often act as directional elements, such as arrows, that move the viewer’s eye around the composition. These lines “indicate a connection between a thing happening and the location where it’s happening, almost like a coordinate system,” (D. Hunt, “A New Grammer if Motion,” Flash Art, Milan, October 2000, p. 74). The lines connect the figures like the patterns of the zodiac or the diagrams art historians superimpose on old master paintings to demonstrate the overall design of the composition and the intended movement of the viewer’s eye.
    B. Clearwater, Inka Essenhigh, Miami, 2003, p. 10

26

Supergod

2001

Oil enamel on canvas.

78 x 72 in. (198.1 x 182.9 cm).
Signed, titled and dated “Inka Essenhigh Supergod 2001” on the reverse.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for $62,500

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

4 Mar 2010
New York