Provenance
Private Collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Hilarie M. Sheets, 'Take Your Child to Work Day Is Every Day for This Collector', The New York Times, 17 January 2019, online (illustrated)
Artist Biography
Tschabalala Self
American • 1990
Harlem-born artist Tschabalala Self combines sewing, printing and painting in a singular style that speaks to her experience of contemporary black womanhood. Despite her extensive use of craft methods, Self considers herself to be a painter above all else. Her work is known for exaggerated colors and forms, allowing the personages within to “escape” from society’s narrow perceptions.
Explaining her practice, the artist stated: “I hope to correct misconceptions propagated within and projected upon the Black body. Multiplicity and possibility are essential to my practice and general philosophy. My subjects are fully aware of their conspicuousness and are unmoved by the viewer. Their role is not to show, explain, or perform but rather ‘to be.’ In being, their presence is acknowledged and their significance felt. My project is committed to this exchange, for my own edification and for the edification of those who resemble me.”
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Tschabalala Self

Bush

signed 'Tschabalala Self' on the overlap
fabric collage, thread, acrylic and oil on canvas
diameter 76.2 cm (30 in.)
Executed in 2016.

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 ‡

Sold for £107,100

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London Auction 4 March 2022