Alfie Caine - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, October 12, 2023 | Phillips

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  • A former architecture student at Cambridge University, British-born Alfie Caine (b. 1996) lives and works in Rye, East Sussex. His work has been featured internationally in the following exhibitions: What Lies Beyond in 2021 at Union Gallery, London; High Humanity in 2021 at Jack Siebert, Paris; and Moments of Calm in 2021 at JARILAGER Gallery, Seoul. Hosted by Phillips, the artist made his auction debut at the Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Auction in January this year.

     

    Informed by his meticulous draughtsmanship and exceptional understanding of space, Caine’s architectural studies inform his work. The artist takes his surroundings – the Sussex landscape – as his inspiration and transforms this into fantastical dreamscapes. The artist treads the line between the real and the imagined in this way. Precision is at the heart of the artist’s practice; his one-point linear perspective is very exact. Caine’s work features bright hues, almost phosphorescent in colour, capturing ephemeral moments and evoking illusory interiors, dreamlike worlds. His interiors recall the great British artist David Hockney’s recent paintings of interiors, such as A Bigger Interior with Blue Terrace and Garden (2017).

    • Provenance

      Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 2020

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Midday Sun

signed and dated 'Alfie Caine 2020' lower right; signed, titled and dated 'Alfie Caine 'Midday Sun' Nov 2020' on the reverse
oil, acrylic and paper collage on canvas
100 x 150.8 cm (39 3/8 x 59 3/8 in.)
Executed in November 2020.

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Estimate
£12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for £88,900

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 12 October 2023