Carroll Dunham - New Now New York Thursday, September 17, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gladstone Gallery, New York

  • 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 (12/6/08)

2008
watercolor, colored pencil, graphite on paper
11 1/4 x 15 in. (28.6 x 38.1 cm)
Initialed and dated "12/6/08 C.D." upper left, further inscribed "Rome" on the reverse.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $10,625

Contact Specialist
Rebekah Bowling
Head of Sale
New York
+ 1 212 940 1250

New Now

New York Auction 17 September 2015