Eddie Peake - 20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction New York Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome
    Private Collection, Palm Beach
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Circa Feb 2002, A Small Woman With A Shaved Head Wearing Clothes Intended For Someone Far Larger Than Herself Stands Alone In The Corner Of A Room, Facing The Corner, Rocking Slightly From One Foot To The Other And Muttering To Herself, Lamenting The Lack Of A Communal Set Of Hair Clippers. In The Next Room Along A Middle Aged Man Of Jamaican Descent Who Speaks With An Exaggeratedly Posh English Accent And Who Is Not An Artist Draws Pictures Of Aliens Annotated With Made Up Words Written In A Practiced Calligraphic Flourish. Across The Hall A Young Man Who Is An Artist (And Shares A Room Non-Romantically (They Sleep In Separate Single Beds) With A Sexagenarian Man Of The Same Name Who Never Speaks) Is Drawing A Picture Using Two Colouring Pencils (One Orange And One Green) And Concluding That Orange And Green Are Difficult Colours To Use, Especially In Tandem With One Another

signed and dated "Eddie Peake October 2013" on the overlap
oil and acrylic on linen
71 1/8 x 55 1/4 in. (180.7 x 140.3 cm)
Painted in October 2013.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $2,540

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20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction

21 - 28 March 2023