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'When I start drawing or painting, time vanishes […] It’s almost like meditation. I’ve always noticed that my mind can wander extremely freely, and that great ideas about the world that surround me come to me while I am drawing and painting.' —Harold Ancart Vividly rendered in a psychedelic palette of sharply contrasted and saturated colour, Untitled from 2017 is a vivid expression of the Belgian-born artist’s confident handling of oil stick, and his uncanny ability to abstract reality in his invention of ‘Natural subjects in unnatural colours’.ⁱ Possessing a remarkable tactility and exuberance, the present work opens a window onto a strange otherworldly scene, at once familiar and strange as recognisable natural forms are reduced to their rudimentary elements of line, colour, and shape. Scudded with soft clouds in shocking shades of blue and yellow, an infinite pink horizon stretches out beyond a flat, black sea, its surface ruptured by abstract, jagged forms in intensely contrasted blue and red hues.

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Contemplative and serene, the vertical format of the present work draws on a Surrealist tradition epitomised by Yves Tanguy’s illusionist landscapes of windswept beaches, vast horizons, and saturated gradients, giving eerie form to Ancart’s own suggestion that ‘without a horizon line, one gets lost and eventually dies.’ⁱⁱ Like his French predecessor, Ancart’s fictive landscapes are utterly absorbing and transportive, deftly blending the Surreal with the Sublime as their ‘ambiguity encourages the eye to make its own travels.’ⁱⁱⁱ

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\"\" — Yves Tanguy, *Time and Time Again*, 1942, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Image: © NPL - DeA Picture Library / Bridgeman Images, Artwork: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2022

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Surrealism and the Sublime

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Executed in 2017 following an instructive trip to Iceland's volcanic landscape, the present work introduces compositional elements that Ancart would go on to formalise in his Iceberg paintings the following year. Introduced in Freeze, his first solo exhibition in London with David Zwirner Gallery, these Iceberg paintings share in the same distinctive compositional arrangement used by the artist in the present work and associated volcano paintings from this period, a sharp horizon line dividing the painting into simplified zones of sea, sky, foreground, and background, anchored by a central motif and focal point for the viewer to orient themselves against.

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\nFracturing a more figurative whole into its abstract components in this manner, Ancart radically updates a 19^th century pictorial tradition of the American Sublime developed in the deep horizons and dramatic landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church and his contemporaries. Travelling through much of the same scenery himself in a 2014 road trip across the United States, Ancart was so inspired that he turned the boot of his jeep into a mobile studio of sorts, painting in laybys as he traversed the vast landscape.

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\"\" — Frederic Edwin Church, *Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica*, 1867, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford

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Developing poet and critic Charles Baudelaire’s 19^th notion of the flâneur as ‘one who walks around and tries to isolate poetic moments out of the everyday urban landscape,’ Ancart has created a specific visual language that is at once familiar and jarringly surreal.^iv Slightly distorted shapes, manipulated horizon lines, and inverted colour schemes challenge viewers to examine the world in new and unexpected ways. Operating within what critic Chinnie Ding has described as a ‘planet of painting’, Ancart’s sense of space is purely pictorial, and the art historical references absorbed into his work remaining ‘like chromosomal traces enrich[ing] such dimensional unknowns.’^v

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\n• Born in Belgium in 1980, the New York-based Harold Ancart uses a vast array of media in creating complex pictorial worlds and sculptural installations.

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\n• Ancart has already succeeded in carving out a role for himself in the contemporary art world; examples of his work belong to esteemed museum collections worldwide including The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Menil Collection in Houston, the Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, among others.

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• Ancart has been the subject of several important exhibitions, including Harold Ancart: Untitled (there is no there there), held at The Menil Collection, Houston, in 2016. After his major 2020 presentation with David Zwirner held across both of their New York galleries, his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery La Grande Profondeur opened in 2021, marking his first show in Paris.

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ⁱ ‘Artist to Watch: PRIME FOCUS - Harold Ancart’, Artspace, 1 May 2022, online.
\nⁱⁱ Harold Ancart, quoted in Naomi Rea, ‘How the Self-Depreciating Belgian Painter Harold Ancart Charmed the Art World’, Artnet News, 10 September 2018, online.
\nⁱⁱⁱ Kat Herriman, ‘Back and Forth with Artist Harold Ancart,’ Cultured, 29 April 2019, online.
\n^iv Harold Ancart, quoted in Julia Felsenthal, ‘Harold Ancart Brings His Kaleidoscopic Trees to Chelsea’, T Magazine, 8 September 2020, online.
\n ^v Chinnie Ding, ‘Critics' Picks: Harold Ancart’, Artforum, 18 June 2015, online.

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"When I start drawing or painting, time vanishes […] It’s almost like meditation. I’ve always noticed that my mind can wander extremely freely, and that great ideas about the world that surround me come to me while I am drawing and painting."
\n—Harold Ancart

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Vividly rendered in a psychedelic palette of sharply contrasted and saturated colour, Untitled from 2017 is a vivid expression of the Belgian-born artist’s confident handling of oil stick, and his uncanny ability to abstract reality in his invention of ‘Natural subjects in unnatural colours’.ⁱ Possessing a remarkable tactility and exuberance, the present work opens a window onto a strange otherworldly scene, at once familiar and strange as recognisable natural forms are reduced to their rudimentary elements of line, colour, and shape. Scudded with soft clouds in shocking shades of blue and yellow, an infinite pink horizon stretches out beyond a flat, black sea, its surface ruptured by abstract, jagged forms in intensely contrasted blue and red hues.

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\"Yves — Yves Tanguy, *Time and Time Again*, 1942, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Image: © NPL - DeA Picture Library / Bridgeman Images, Artwork: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2022

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Surrealism and the Sublime

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\"Frederic — Frederic Edwin Church, *Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica*, 1867, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. Image: akg-images

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\n• Born in Belgium in 1980, the New York-based Harold Ancart uses a vast array of media in creating complex pictorial worlds and sculptural installations.

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DORON LANGBERG Nir and Zach, 2018

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EMILY MAE SMITH Raft on Siren Sea, 2017

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MICKALENE THOMAS As If You Read My Mind, 2005

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ROBERT NAVA Before Minotaur, 2019

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RAFA MACARRÓN Un Día en la Playa, 2013

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REGGIE BURROWS HODGES First Serve, 2019

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ALBERTO BURRI Sacco e Rosso, 1956

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Austyn Weiner, Working Through Not Knowing A Damn Thing About Any Thing, 2020. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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Austyn Weiner

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Executed on a monumental scale, Working Through Not Knowing a Damn Thing About Anything marks the Evening Sale debut of artist Austyn Weiner. With a background in photography, Weiner works across a wide range of mediums — including oil paint, crayon, and charcoal — to deconstruct physicality and feeling into sensual forms. Driven by an autobiographic urge, her supercharged palette references the richly saturated colors of her childhood in Miami. Weiner studied photography and painting at the University of Michigan before relocating to Los Angeles in 2016, where her painterly language embraced a more expressive mode of abstraction. "Most of the time, I approach a painting with no idea as to what it will be," she says. "But once in a while it hits like an arrow, and I know exactly what this work needs to become." Weiner’s work has been the subject of several solo shows, including her first solo show at Journal Gallery in New York in 2019, and most recently at Carl Kostyál in London and Bill Brady Gallery in Miami.

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Left: Issy Wood, General Sphinx, 2019. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, London. Right: Issy Wood, The butter, 2019. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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Issy Wood

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An interdisciplinary artist at the vanguard of the 21st century’s revival and reinterpretation of Surrealist themes and motifs, London-based Issy Wood specializes in making the familiar strange. At once utterly contemporary and out of time, her canvases make surprising juxtapositions between temporalities, compounded by the artist’s use of her grandmother’s ornaments, old auction catalogues, iPhone photographs, and music as her source material. "Both painting and producing music deal with layers, scrapping the parts you don’t want, and happy accidents," she says. A child of the 1990s, she is well-schooled in the constant flow of decontextualized images and information that characterizes the digital age, resulting in darkly imaginative paintings that have brought notable critical acclaim. Wood earned her BA in Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmith’s in 2015 and an MA from the Royal Academy Schools in 2018, during which time she staged her first solo show at Carlos/Ishikawa in 2017. Wood's work has since been shown at Beijing’s X Museum, as well as in a solo show at JTT in New York in 2020.

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Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Coping Mechanisms, 2021. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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Michaela Yearwood-Dan

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Diaristic and deeply personal, British artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s paintings record her reflections on race, class, and gender, and environmentalism. She incorporates botanical motifs and forms in lush, all-over environments that are as contemplative as they are visually compelling. Seen here, Coping Mechanisms is a work of high intensity that combines text and gestural mark-making in exuberant and expressive passages of vibrant color. Yearwood-Dan’s large-scale canvases nod to the all-over compositions of Cy Twombly, although where Twombly’s references looked back to a classical past, Yearwood-Dan’s are rooted firmly in the present moment, incorporating song lyrics, drafted notes of text messages never sent, and her "conversations" with Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri. "I’m most proud of my choice to move away from figurative work, to integrate text and make my vulnerability visible to my audience," she says. Yearwood-Dan has been celebrated with several solo exhibitions between New York and London. This year, Tiwani Contemporary celebrated the artist with a solo exhibition, and in 2021 she was the subject of another solo exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery.

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Cristina BanBan, Melting away, 2018. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, London.

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Cristina Banban

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Spanish artist Cristina BanBan’s evocative portrayal of the female form celebrates women and the spaces they occupy. Depicting her subject’s bodies as enveloping the entirety of the canvas, BanBan subverts established notions of patriarchy and confronts the traditional male gaze. Her works combine classical training from the University of Barcelona with an interest in Japanese Anime to stylize and enlarge aspects of the body in an expressive representation of complex emotions. "Hands are my favourite part of the human body, after the teeth," she says. "Playing with hands brings movement into the painting. It doesn’t matter if the subjects are in relaxed positions, hands always create a dynamic composition." Currently based in New York City, BanBan has quickly attracted international praise with exhibitions worldwide, including multiple solo exhibitions at Perrotin in Shanghai in 2021 and Perrotin in Paris in 2022. BanBan recently set her personal auction record at Phillips's March 2022 auction in London.

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Julian Pace, Kanye, 2021. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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Julian Pace

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Based in Los Angeles, self-taught artist Julian Pace's interrogates themes of celebrity worship, identity, and self-absorption through large-scale portraiture. In both their treatment and content, Pace’s portraits clearly demonstrate his deep interest in art history and the figure of the artist, underpinned by several formative years spent in Florence. Working primarily in traditional mediums and within the historical contexts of the genre, Pace places his portraits of contemporary celebrities alongside reinterpretations of some of the most immediately recognizable images from the Western art historical canon. "I think I’m more interested in the human form and the people rather than who they are necessarily," Pace says. Marking the artist’s auction debut, the present work portrays Kanye West through Pace’s characteristically exaggerated proportions, bold angularity, and highly textured application of paint. Included in his recent exhibition "Julian Pace: Some Paintings" at Simon Simchowitz Gallery in October 2021, Pace’s portrait of West captures both the graphic quality of his practice and the intersection of traditional conventions of portraiture and mass media.

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Antonia Showering, I'm Not Saying, 2017. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, London.

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Antonia Showering

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Stylistically recalling the dreamlike landscapes of Hurvin Anderson and Peter Doig, British artist Antonia Showering’s paintings play with personal memories, merging meaningful moments over into shifting emotional landscapes. "My paintings try and explore how memory works through stacking lots of recollections on top of one another," she says. Built up in velvety layers, her paintings often feature figures drawn from her family and those she has loved, not reflecting a physical likeness but recording the impressions of deep feelings and desires. Disarmingly intimate and pervaded by a poignant nostalgia, Showering balances emotion with an interpretative openness, endowing her figures with ambiguity. Living and working between London and Somerset, Showering earned an MFA from the Slade School of Art, London in 2018 and a BA (Hons) from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2016. Recent exhibitions of Showering’s work include an online solo presentation with White Cube in 2020 and this year's solo exhibition "Mixed Emotion" at the Timothy Taylor gallery.

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Salvatore Scarpitta, Red Freight, 1961. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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"Burri makes wounds, but you heal them,” Willem de Kooning once told Salvatore Scarpitta. Deeply affected by both artist’s experiences during World War II, two canvases bring that connection more clearly into focus — one torn and scorched, the other wrapped and bandaged — as part of Phillips’ upcoming 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London. Viewed together, the works speak to how both Italian artists responded to the experiences of war, harnessing a fundamental interest in materiality, compositional simplicity, and the emotive power of abstraction to convey the unspeakable.

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Alberto Burri, Sacco e Rosso, 1956. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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Alberto Burri trained as a surgeon before the war, instilling in him a practical understanding of the body’s vulnerability and of the tactile qualities of flesh and tissue — themes that would become emblematic in his later work. He served as a medic and saw action at Yugoslavia’s bloody front line in 1942, before his internment in an American prisoner of war camp in 1943. Like many other prisoners of war, Burri turned to art as a means of surviving the monotony and maltreatment of daily life in the camp, using whatever materials he found at hand. When he returned to Naples in 1946, Burri understood for the first time the scale and impact of the destruction the war had ravaged. Like the body on the battlefield, the city itself was blown apart, piles of dusty rubble and burnt-out apartment blocks littering the streets, while the skeletal remains of bombed Renaissance churches tore at the sky.

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Left: Church of San Pietro Martire, 1943. Image: Carlo Maggio / Alamy Stock Photo. Right: Alberto Burri, Sacco e Rosso, 1954, Tate, London. Image: © Tate, Artwork: © Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, Città di Castello / DACS 2022.

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Inflicting real damage onto his materials, Burri’s burlap Sacco e Rosso are deeply emblematic of both the individual body and the scorched realities of a European post-war world. A vital all-purpose material, burlap was used in the war effort in the construction of makeshift tents and camouflage, for the transportation of supplies and in the building of barricades on the front line. Burri’s stitched, torn, and burnt Sacchi are transformed under the artist’s hand from ubiquitous textile into powerful original medium, a metaphor that would have been viscerally felt in collective European memory of the 1950s.

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Undoubtably Burri’s most prized works, Sacco e Rosso are exceptionally rare today. The present Sacco e Rosso unfolds in sweeping passages of deep black, raw burlap, and blood red as color, form, and medium are perfectly synthesized in the composition. Riven with pockmarked wounds and burns, the coarse burlap gathers in elegant folds, its torn and frayed edges amplified in the contrast. Held in the same collection for over 30 years, this Socco e Rosso is one of only 15 in existence, one of which is held in the permanent collection of Tate Gallery in London.

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Salvatore Scarpitta, Red Freight (detail), 1961. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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Like Burri, Scarpitta had seen active service during World War II, although this was somewhat complicated given his status as an American citizen in Italy. American by birth and raised in Hollywood, in 1936 Scarpitta returned to his ancestral Italian home, studying and working in Rome throughout one of the city’s most artistically dynamic and exciting periods. Conceived, as he put it, under the cloud of World War I, Scarpitta came to maturation in the long shadow of World War II, where the “dramatic scenes and images of wounded or dead soldiers” that he had witnessed as a child came back to him with renewed force.

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Serving in the United States Navy, Scarpitta was also enlisted as a so-called “Monuments Man,” charged with identifying, recovering, and cataloguing art looted by the Nazis during this period. Such careful attention to the material life of paintings no doubt had a significant impact on Scarpitta, and it is certainly possible to read his careful wrapping of these post-war paintings as a direct echo of this important restitutional work, and as a sign of protection and recovery in the face of destruction and violence.

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The war had changed me... I wanted to come into contact with the hidden, most difficult nature of things. — Salvatore Scarpitta
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Scarpitta’s 1961 Red Freight is a rare and arresting example of the artist’s iconic three-dimensional wrapped paintings that brought him international renown. Composed of wide, sculptural bands of deep, wine-red strips of canvas dried leather-hard and wound in a sequence of alternating horizontal and diagonal directions like bandages across a body, the work captures the balance between tension, depth, and plasticity that characterizes Scarpitta’s most powerful work.

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Adding an especially emotionally charged element, the work’s title, Red Freight, compounds visual associations between the composition and the wooden boards of the red Deutsche Reischban freight trains repurposed under the Third Reich to transport weapons, goods, and — more tragically — people as the Nazi program of industrialized genocide intensified across Europe. In this respect, the corporeal dimensions of Scarpitta’s wrapped canvases take on an added poignancy. In its visual proximity to the wounded body, Red Freight not only underscores the impact of the events of World War II on Scarpitta’s artistic development, but also points to the optimistic note of healing and regeneration that these works strike in their post-war context.

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Left: Alberto Burri, Combustione plastica (Plastic combustion), 1958, Citta di Castello, Fondazione Burri, Italy. Image: Luisa Ricciarini / Bridgeman Images, Artwork: © Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, Città di Castello / DACS, London 2022. Right: Detail of the present work.

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Within its scars and sutures, Burri’s Sacco e Rosso carries itself with a quiet resilience and dignity equally evocative of the world from which it emerged. Ground-breaking at the time of its execution, in his Sacchi works Burri pioneered a highly personal style of Art Infomrel, and helped set the stage for Italy’s radical Arte Povera movement. Exhibited as early as 1952, Burri understood the significance of these works, and examples of his Sachhi are now held in the most eminent international institutions, including The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, and the Tate Gallery in London.

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Six years after Burri's earliest exhibited Sachhi, Scarpitta presented his first "bandaged" paintings, which deeply impressed themselves on the legendary art dealer Leo Castelli when he visited the artist’s studio the same year. Spurred by this meeting to return to the United States, Scarpitta exhibited at the Dwan Gallery in Los Angeles shortly after the present work’s execution in 1961. Red Freight has also been included in significant retrospectives over the decades, including the 1977 survey exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, and the Leo Castelli Gallery’s extensive 1982 show Salvatore Scarpitta, American Cycle 1958-1982.

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Georg Baselitz, Dr. Dumouchel (Remix), 2007. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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Georg Baselitz

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Reflecting on his Remix paintings, Georg Baselitz has explained that “I try to retain one thing. The original stimulus. It was a different painter who did those earlier works. It was me, to be sure, but in a different spirit with a different intention.” Executed in 2007, the large-scale Dr. Dumouchel (Remix) is a key work from the series. Revisiting some of his most provocative compositions via photographs and catalogues, the German artist generated an innovative new body of work which addressed questions of permanence and change, originality and our relationship to history. This self-conscious approach to reference evokes an almost Hegelian approach to repetition: over time, and through the dialectic process of revisiting and recombining forms and negating others, Baselitz’s work continues to resolve itself. Featuring a caricature of Marcel Duchamp, Dr. Dumouchel (Remix) is an update of an earlier body of paintings, including Frisch verliebt – M. D, Melodie, and Im Walde von Blainville. In revising this motif over several iterations across the small series, Baselitz paired the amorous couple with patterned backgrounds that seem to nod to certain art historical touchstones: here, perhaps, a reference to another great self-revisionist, Edvard Munch, who returned to the purple-flecked wallpaper of his Weeping Women composition several times over his career.

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Cecily Brown, Untitled, 2012. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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Cecily Brown

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Key to the musical concept of the remix is how the contemporary artist interprets their predecessors – something British painter Cecily Brown examines brilliantly in the dialogue struck between Untitled and a visual history of the female nude. As the artist explains, “You’ve got the same old materials – just oils and a canvas – and you’re trying to do something that’s been done for centuries. And yet, within those limits, you have to make something new or exciting.” The traditional nude ensemble gives Brown remarkable scope for a promiscuous blend of Old Master and Pop culture references, synthesized through the artist’s sensual textures. Taking clear pleasure in the physical properties of oil paint itself, Brown transforms her canvases into restless and shifting surfaces that hover between figuration and abstraction, producing fluid forms that combine the fleshy excess of Peter Paul Rubens and the gestural immediacy of Willem de Kooning. This approach eschews critical distance in favor of immediacy, encountering these traditional images and their creators head-on with new, reimagined significance.

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Sarah Ball, Untitled, 2017. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, London.

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Sarah Ball

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An underappreciated aspect of any remix is rediscovery, and a constituent element of that rediscovery stems from an artist finding the universal appeal of something which was previously forgotten, disused, or out of favor. It is often the process by which life returns to what never had time to become a ghost, and this alchemy is readily apparent in Sarah Ball’s phantasmic work. Her portraits of anonymous sitters feature evasive, implacable facial expressions. Her choice of muted palettes and monochrome backgrounds work in contrast to the presence of her subjects, which the artist often sources from newspaper archives and social media. This ambiguity between time and space, together with the way Ball renders their features – some in lifelike detail, some blended into the background – gives an otherworldly feel to her work, and yet, still retains the human elements that transcend their stillness. The male figure in Untitled comes to us from an old baseball card, a family photograph in the attic, or an immigration card, and his past and future are a mystery to the viewer, but given its almost archetypical style, we can layer our own narratives over the image, creating an identity that Ball’s practice compels us to confront – how the uncanny comes about is just as much a cultural reference point as how we interpret it.

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Elizabeth Peyton, Evan at the Reading Festival 1993, 1997. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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Elizabeth Peyton

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A portrait of Evan Dando, the frontman of ‘90s grunge band the Lemonheads, Evan at the Reading Festival 1993 is emblematic of Elizabeth Peyton’s lyrical work. Incorporating sweeping brushwork, intimate sincerity, and emotional verve, the work collapses distinctions between realism and expressionist styles, and also between the public performance of celebrity and the deeply personal relationships that we forge with them. One of several portraits of Dando, he is shown here quietly contemplative, his long hair swept from his luminous face as he reads from the red book in his hands. Elbows leaning on crossed legs, his shoulders gently curved in concentration it is an image of quiet introspection and unguarded honesty that takes on the ethereal quality of a Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece. Using second-had images of our most iconic musicians, Peyton’s approach to her compositions suits this musical analogy, remixing her found material in new, personally meaningful ways. Peyton’s use of celebrities as idealized forms brilliantly discerns no real distinction between those she knows personally and those she knows from history. Classical art, particularly the mythmaking aspect of sublime but fictional subjects, creates larger-than-life fantasy, whereas Peyton brings the living legend – the rock star – and places them in their cultural milieu in a quiet, unshrouded manner, far from Andy Warhol’s fascination with celebrity, or the unimaginable perfection of the Pre-Raphaelite model in favor of history and its place in the now. “[People] are the way the world moves,” she explains, “and they contain their time.”

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Emily Mae Smith, Raft on Siren Sea, 2017. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London.

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Emily Mae Smith

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Placing itself in direct dialogue with the fin de siècle arts periodical The Studio through the appropriation of its title and typeface, Raft on Siren Sea highlights American artist Emily Mae Smith’s subversive response to established art historical narratives with another element of remixing that requires a mix of deft skill and clarity of purpose: the parody. The work blends the graphic quality of Surrealism and the Chicago Imagists in a manner that feeds into Smith’s distinctive brand of “feminist pop,” which employs sharp humor as a means of deflating and reframing assumptions related to women, class, and divisions between high and low culture. Smith notes: “ […] instead of going with whatever the canon of art history says, I actually just developed deeply personal relationships with specific paintings, giving them my read. In a sense my paintings are a response to these paintings and the web of social, cultural and emotional weight they carry instead of a reference to them.” Smith's siren is able to move across art historical space and time, parodying the narratives she finds there and rewriting them in her own visual style. Sailing under a silent moon, at first glance the ship here seems empty, the lapping waves driving it on. Upon closer inspection though, we see the sea itself contains the unmistaken forms of female bodies, the rise and fall of the waves echoing a feminine silhouette. Replacing the hero Odysseus and his all-male crew, Smith places a female protagonist at the helm, the literal and symbolic figurehead for an alternative version of this canonical story.

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Ouattara Watts, Cosmic, 2002. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, London.

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Ouattara Watts

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With Ouattara Watts’ work, the idea of remixing is baked into the conceptual basis of his practice – the Ivory Coast-born artist navigates a sea of cultures, symbols, patterns, numerals, and qualitative ideas not in search of, but rather in service to creating a universe on its own terms. “While I use identifiable pictorial elements to be better understood,” Watts notes, “this project is nevertheless about something much wider. I am painting the Cosmos.” There is a machine-like quality to the artist’s style, yet his figures of seemingly impractical items nurture a connective human aspiration, one that reveals the fundamental necessity of converging disparate images to create new landscapes. To Watts, the DJ and the metaphysician are exploring the same ideas; as are the skull or the chandelier or the flower in the artist’s system of objects. In Cosmic, Watts diagrams a darkened, mysterious figure with humanlike dimensions and several points of output with labels such as “Vision” and “Manifest” – and there is an unidentified input source, marked by its direction but its prompt just out of the scope of the canvas, coming from elsewhere in Watts’ interconnected macrocosm, almost in the form of an unsolved formula. There is always an unknown quantity which invites the remix to occur in the first place, and the artist experiments with any and all possibilities in order to arrive at the latest reach of the cosmos.

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