Dana Schutz - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Phillips
  • "Still lives become personified, portraits become events, and landscapes become constructions. I embrace the area between which the subject is composed and decomposing, formed and formless, inanimate and alive.. In my work, I imagine a place, a moment, a fictional situation, which meshes the premise of a practical situation with the absurd."
    —Dana Schutz
    Dana Schutz’s playful red poppies see the artist bring her distinctive lyrical brushwork and absurdist, multi-focal compositions to a floral array. Red Flowers personifies its titular subjects as the two blossoms seemingly burst from the canvas. Schutz has proved herself to be a generation-defining artist whose work has transformed contemporary painting. Ultra-imaginative and nearly hallucinatory, the present work shakes up the traditional still life in a manner only to be expected of Dana Schutz.

    • Provenance

      Private Collection (gifted by the artist)
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Red Flowers

signed, dedicated and dated "To Jessica and Jon Congratulations on your wedding! Love, Dana Dana Schutz 2003" on the reverse
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Painted in 2003.

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Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for $107,100

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 16 November 2022