Titus Kaphar - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Thursday, May 10, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Titus Kaphar

    Titus Kaphar’s work questions the nature of history and its representations in the past and today. By altering the materiality of his paintings, sculptures, and installations, Kaphar subverts conventional understandings of historical representations and exposes the uncomfortable and troubling realities of the racism in America’s past. Kaphar’s examinations of historical representations and the omissions of such representations encourage viewers to question their own relationships to history and understandings of the past. He strives to dislodge history from the past and to promote its relevance in the world today. 

    Kaphar’s work has received considerable acclaim, and his paintings have graced two covers of Time magazine. He is the recipient of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship and his work is represented in such institutions as the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, and the Perez Art Museum Miami. He lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut.

     
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Nah! Momma, She Ain't White, She Just Real Light Skinnedded

signed and dated "Kaphar 06" on the upper turnover edge
oil and thread on canvas
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm.)
Executed in 2006.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $27,500

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Rebekah Bowling
Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

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