Carroll Dunham - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Thursday, May 19, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • 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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Four works: (i) Untitled (1/31/09); (ii) Untitled (5/12/09); (iii) Untitled (2/23/09); (iv) Untitled (2/10/09)

(i) signed with the artist's initials and dated "1/31/09 C.D." upper right; inscribed "8. Cornwall" on the reverse
(ii) signed with the artist's initials and dated "2/23/09 C.D." lower right; inscribed "1" on the reverse
(iii) signed with the artist's initials and dated "2/10/09 C.D." upper left; inscribed "Cornwall" on the reverse
(iv) signed with the artist's initials and dated "5/12/09 C.D." center right; inscribed "1 Cornwall" on the reverse

crayon on paper
each 4 1/3 x 5 1/2 in. (11 x 14 cm)
Executed in 2009.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $15,120

Contact Specialist

Patrizia Koenig
Specialist, Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
+1 212 940 1279
pkoenig@phillips.com

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 19 May 2022