Hunt Slonem - Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, New York New York Monday, September 23, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Hunt Slonem

    American • 1951

    Brooklyn-based artist Hunt Slonem grounds his work in the act of painting. Having spent a lot of time in various parts of the world—including Hawaii, California, Louisiana and, most importantly, Nicaragua—because of his father's job as navy officer, Slonem uses the sunny landscapes of his various homes to bring tropical hues into his work. He is most famous for his meshy representations of tropical birds, but overall, Slonem takes wildlife as focal subject and features the same animal countless time within a single large-scale oil painting.

    It's the repetition in Slonem's work that makes his paintings so imposing. As the years progress, Slonem's depictions of nature do too. In the past, his paintings featured wild animals but, since the turn of the century, Slonem has started to explore notions of domestication, encaging his animals within nature much like humans are encaged within society. Other popular motifs that Slonem has painted in repetition include bunnies, butterflies and flowers.

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White Diamond Dust Winter

signed, titled and dated "Hunt Slonem 2024 © "White Diamond Dust Winter"" on the reverse
oil, acrylic and Diamond Dust on canvas
36 1/8 x 48 in. (91.8 x 121.9 cm)
Executed in 2024, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $13,970

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