Dan Colen - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Marlborough Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Madrid, Marlborough Gallery, Eagles, October 25–November 24, 2012, pp. 15, 60 (illustrated, p. 15; titled as "TBT")

  • Artist Biography

    Dan Colen

    American • 1979

    American artist Dan Colen has spent most of his career asking himself questions about the editorial decisions artists have to make when creating a scene from scratch on canvas. In his early work, Colen painted mundane interiors punctuated with fantastical elements. This manifested as part of a growing curiosity in the ethereal or divine intervention.

    Colen subsequently stepped away from paint as material and started using found objects as mediums with which to paint. Among these, Colen has used chewing gum, street trash, confetti, feathers, flowers and dirt. This methodology allows Colen to abandon control and create in a more free-form, subconscious manner.

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Big Bang

signed, titled and dated "Dan Colen 2012 "BIG BANG"" on the overlap
steel studs on canvas
80 x 63 in. (203.2 x 160 cm)
Executed in 2012.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for $35,280

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 16 November 2022