Dan Colen - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Gagosian, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Hong Kong, Gagosian, Dan Colen: When I'm Gone, 21 March - 13 May 2016

  • Artist Biography

    Dan Colen

    American • 1979

    American artist Dan Colen has spent most of his career asking himself questions about the editorial decisions artists have to make when creating a scene from scratch on canvas. In his early work, Colen painted mundane interiors punctuated with fantastical elements. This manifested as part of a growing curiosity in the ethereal or divine intervention.

    Colen subsequently stepped away from paint as material and started using found objects as mediums with which to paint. Among these, Colen has used chewing gum, street trash, confetti, feathers, flowers and dirt. This methodology allows Colen to abandon control and create in a more free-form, subconscious manner.

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Sick Sick Sick

flowers on bleached Belgian linen
236.2 x 188 cm (92 7/8 x 74 in.)
Executed in 2016.

Estimate
£30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for £31,500

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 29 June 2022