Kenny Scharf - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Thursday, May 19, 2022 | Phillips

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  • "You know, I’ve been doing emojis before there was an Internet...It might be how I am feeling. Sometimes it might be how I think someone else is feeling. It’s a release. It saves me a lot of money on psychiatric [care]. I know it does."
    —Kenny Scharf

    The present work in the exhibition Lio Malca Presents: Kenny Scharf At La Nave Salinas Foundation, Ibiza, June 15 - September 30, 2019, Artwork: © 2022 Kenny Scharf/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 
    • Provenance

      Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Ibiza, Fundación La Nave Salinas, Lio Malca Presents: Kenny Scharf at La Nave Salinas Foundation, June 15–September 30, 2019

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DR. PURPLE

signed, titled and dated "Dr. Purple Kenny Scharf '19" on the reverse
spray paint on canvas mounted to panel
diameter 60 in. (152.4 cm)
Executed in 2019.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$120,000 - 180,000 

Sold for $302,400

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 19 May 2022