Carroll Dunham - Under the Influence New York Wednesday, March 4, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Metro Pictures, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    “When I started doing a lot of drawings, I wanted to be able to track them, to order the chronology and also the space and time that separated one idea from the other. Things come about in time. Time is one of the materials.” Carroll Dunham, 1990

  • 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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#4

1992
oil stick, pencil on paper
22 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (56.5 x 76.8 cm)
Signed, titled and dated twice "5/14/92 6/15/92 C. Dunham #4" along the lower margin.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

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Under the Influence

New York Auction 4 March 2015 11am