Carroll Dunham - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | Phillips

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  • 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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Blue House

1997-98
Lithograph in colors, on Somerset Satin paper, with full margins,
I. 23 1/4 x 26 in (59.1 x 66 cm);
S. 29 3/4 x 32 1/4 in (75.6 x 81.9 cm)

signed, dated `1997-98' and numbered 23/39 in pencil (there were also 8 artist's proofs), published by Julie Sylvester, Helsinki, for Whitney Museum of American Art Editions, New York, in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for $1,750

Modern & Contemporary Editions

Editions
25 January 2012
New York