Carroll Dunham - Evening & Day Editions London Thursday, September 19, 2024 | Phillips
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    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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Lot offered with No Reserve

Three Etchings (#1) (K. A8)

1987
Etching, aquatint and drypoint in colours, on wove paper, with full margins.
I. 94.5 x 66 cm (37 1/4 x 25 7/8 in.)
S. 140 x 97 cm (55 1/8 x 38 1/4 in.)

Signed, dated and numbered 49/50 (there were also 14 artist's proofs), published by Editions Ilene Kurtz, New York (with their blindstamp), framed.

Estimate
£800 - 1,200 •‡

Sold for £508

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 19 - 20 September 2024