Carroll Dunham - Under the Influence New York Thursday, September 20, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Sonnabend Gallery, New York
    Jablonka Galerie, Cologne

  • 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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Simple Palette

1989
mixed media on canvas
48 1/4 x 78 3/4 in. (122.6 x 200 cm)
Signed and dated "Carroll Dunham July-August, October 1989" upper right.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Under the Influence

20 September 2012
New York