Carroll Dunham - New Now New York Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the Artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005

  • Exhibited

    New York, Leo Castelli, Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, December 11, 1993–January 8, 1994

  • 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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Untitled (5/18/93, 6/3/93)

signed and dated "5/18/93 6/3/93 C Dunham" upper right
pencil on paper
11 5/8 x 8 in. (29.5 x 20.3 cm)
Executed in 1993.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $3,810

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen
Head of Sale, New Now
212 940 1207
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New Now

New York Auction 8 March 2023