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Carroll Dunham
The Search for Orgone, B
- Estimate
- $15,000 - 20,000
$17,780
Lot Details
urethane, graphite and acrylic on linen, in artist's frame
signed and dated "11/18/00 C. Dunham" lower right; signed, inscribed and dated "NYC 2000 Carroll Dunham" on the stretcher; signed, titled and inscribed "NYC C. Dunham "The Search for Orgone, B"" on the reverse of the frame
24 1/8 x 30 in. (61.3 x 76.2 cm)
Executed on November 18, 2000.
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Carroll Dunham
American | 1949Satire 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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