Carroll Dunham - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 22 - 24 October 2024

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    Allison Kemmerer A8-A10

  • Artist Biography

    Carroll Dunham

    American • 1949

    Satire 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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Carroll Dunham

Three Etchings (K. A8-A10)

1987
The complete set of three monumental etching and aquatints, on wove paper, with full margins.
all I. 37 x 26 in. (94 x 66 cm)
all S. 55 x 38 in. (139.7 x 96.5 cm)
All signed, dated and numbered 38/50 in pencil (there were also 14 artist's proofs), published by Editions Ilene Kurtz, New York (with their blindstamp), all unframed.

Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000 •

Sold for $1,397

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 22 - 24 October 2024