Carroll Dunham - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, October 14, 2015 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    David Nolan Gallery, New York

  • 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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Personal Distance (A)

2001-03
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.

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for £50,000

Contact Specialist
Henry Highley
Head of Sale
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Contemporary Art Day Sale

London 15 October 2015 2pm