Carroll Dunham - 20th C. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    White Cube, London
    Private Collection
    Phillips, New York, March 8, 2013, lot 224
    Acquired at the above sale 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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386

Female Portrait (Second Generation, C)

painted aluminum and wooden table base
62 x 83 x 25 in. (157.5 x 210.8 x 63.5 cm.)
Executed in 2003, this work is number 3 from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $35,000

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Rebekah Bowling
Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
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20th C. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 13 November 2019