Jo Messer - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | Phillips

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  •  “Messer weaves spectral figures throughout her paintings, a translucent portraiture that dethrones the hierarchical subject in favor of something more decentralized and ambiguous. Her works don’t comfortably align with any particular trend in our current moment, and instead draw from apparently distinct impulses, by turns representing desire, claustrophobia, and the extreme present.”
    —Reilly Davidson

    • Provenance

      56 Henry, New York
      Private Collection, Los Angeles
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Online, OOPS by Kenny Schachter, 100 Days of Solitude: Pandemic Paintings by Josephine Messer, 2020

    • Literature

      Kenny Schachter, "Kenny Schachter Is Back, Baby! And He's So OVR It. (But Has Plenty to Say About the Ron Perelman Selloff)," Artnet News, October 15, 2020, online (illustrated)

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Shifting into Five

signed and dated "Josephine Messer 2020" on the reverse
oil on canvas
49 x 59 in. (124.5 x 149.9 cm)
Painted in 2020.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Contact Specialist

Patrizia Koenig 
Specialist, Head of Sale, Afternoon Session
+1 212 940 1279 
pkoenig@phillips.com 

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 15 November 2023