Mary Heilmann - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin; Private collection, New York

  • Catalogue Essay


    For the past thirty years Mary Heilmann has been championed as the consummate artist’s artist. Her un-fussy approach is as notable for the unremitting intimacy it admits as the quixotic sociability it invites… “casual” is one of the most common words describing Heilmann’s paintings, which so gracefully traverse craft traditions popular culture and the fine arts. Owing in part to her works’ messy assurance, by turns glib and erudite, Heilmann also confounds irony and sincerity. With their visceral convolutions of color, runny streaks of paint and riotous compositions, her recent paintings wear their pleasures on their sleeve.
    S. Hudson, Whitney Museum of American Art: 2008 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, New York, p. 153

130

Black Dahlia III

2001

Oil on canvas.

15 x 12 in. (38.1 x 30.5 cm).

Signed, titled and dated “Mary Heilmann Black Dahlia III 2001” on the overlap.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

Sold for $68,500

Contemporary Art Part I

13 May 2010
New York