Maria Farrar - 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale in Association with Poly Auction Hong Kong Sunday, June 6, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Maria Farrar’s paintings weave together classical themes of Eastern and Western visual language in supple, organic forms. Her light-hearted, dynamic scenes derive from everyday life or from fragments of memories, spanning the grand lakes of the Philippines to the shop windows lining the streets of London. Connecting the pictorial language of the Eastern manga and calligraphy with Western art history and oil pigments, Farrar’s acute sense of colour and dynamic compositions capture moments that are concrete and yet simultaneously elusive, fragments of a floating and expanding world.

     

    Born in the Philippines and raised in Japan, Farrar received her BFA from the Ruskin School of Art in 2012 and her MFA from the Slade School of Art in 2016. Her solo exhibitions include ‘Too late to turn back now’ at Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore (2019), ‘Eaves Deep’ at mother’s tankstation, London (2018), ‘straits’ at mother’s tankstation, Dublin (2017), and ‘Marine’ at Supplement Gallery, London (2016). Her works are in the collection of Saatchi Gallery Collection (London) and AmC Collezione Coppola (Venice).

     

    Installation view of Sailor at Supplement, London, Marine, 2016
    Installation view of Sailor at Supplement, London, Marine, 2016

     

    • Provenance

      Supplement, London
      Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2016

    • Exhibited

      Supplement, London, Marine, 16 - 30 July 2016

116

Sailor

signed and dated 'Maria Farrar 2016' on the overlap
oil on canvas
152 x 122 cm. (59 7/8 x 48 in.)
Painted in 2016.

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Estimate
HK$150,000 - 250,000 
€15,800-26,300
$19,200-32,100

Sold for HK$882,000

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Danielle So
Associate Specialist, Head of Day Sale
DanielleSo@phillips.com

20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale in Association with Poly Auction

Hong Kong Auction 7 June 2021