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Carroll Dunham
Personal Distance (A)
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- £50,000 - 70,000‡
£50,000
Lot Details
acrylic on canvas
96.5 x 124.5 cm (37 7/8 x 49 in.)
Signed and dated 'C Dunham Nov 2001' upper left. Further dated 'April May 2003' upper right. Signed, titled and dated 'C. Dunham NYC "Personal Distance(A)" 2001-2003' on the reverse.
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Carroll Dunham
American | 1949Satire and sexuality meet Carroll Dunham's vivid brush in the artist's often large-scale fantasy worlds. His eye-popping cartoonish veneer takes a cue from Philip Guston while his primitive "visual language" of faceless figures continues a long line of tradition—think back to Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.Though Dunham jumps between abstraction, figuration, pop, surrealism and cartoon, his works almost exclusively center on the subject of women's sexuality. He also favors painting, though he has delved into prints, works-on-paper and sculpture. His paintings can be seen as contemporary variations on nineteenth-century portraiture of women bathing, injected with similar concerns of those classical and early modernist artists.
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