Christopher Wool - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 16, 2006 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Luhring Augustine, New York

  • Exhibited

    Vienna, Wiener Secession, Christopher Wool, September 14 – November 11, 2001, n.p. illustrated)

  • Literature

    K. Rhomberg and R. Šikoronj, eds., Christopher Wool, Vienna, n.p. (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    “The rawness of the roller marks, the sprayed streaks and blobs, keeps the refined picture-making honest in terms of real-world observation and location; just as, conversely, the evident sophistication of his craft carries its own honesty as to who the maker is, cutting against the sentimentality of impoverishment. On longer reflection, there is also an inner tension between the two kinds of marking, in that the figurated rollers signify the overpainted interior and the graffiti-style spraying conjures up the street and the walls on the outside of buildings. Connoted spaces are as important as illusionistic ones: Wool’s balancing and welding together of this inside-outside contradiction suspends the work between its referents, lending it an independent center of gravity, making it a space where the mind’s eye can move in more than one direction.” (T. Crow, taken from Streetecriesinnewyork: On the Painting of Christopher Wool in A. Goldstein, Christopher Wool, Los Angeles, 1999, p. 280)

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Untitled (P346)

2000
Enamel on linen mounted on wooden panel.
90 x 60 in. (228.6 x 152.4 cm).
Signed, titled and dated "WOOL 2000 (P346)" on the stretcher; signed, titled and dated again "WOOL 2000 (P346)" on the overlap.

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000 

Sold for $307,200

Contemporary Art Part I

16 Nov 2006, 7pm
New York