Hunt Slonem - New Now Day Sale New York Monday, February 29, 2016 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the artist

  • Artist Biography

    Hunt Slonem

    American • 1951

    Brooklyn-based artist Hunt Slonem grounds his work in the act of painting. Having spent a lot of time in various parts of the world—including Hawaii, California, Louisiana and, most importantly, Nicaragua—because of his father's job as navy officer, Slonem uses the sunny landscapes of his various homes to bring tropical hues into his work. He is most famous for his meshy representations of tropical birds, but overall, Slonem takes wildlife as focal subject and features the same animal countless time within a single large-scale oil painting.

    It's the repetition in Slonem's work that makes his paintings so imposing. As the years progress, Slonem's depictions of nature do too. In the past, his paintings featured wild animals but, since the turn of the century, Slonem has started to explore notions of domestication, encaging his animals within nature much like humans are encaged within society. Other popular motifs that Slonem has painted in repetition include bunnies, butterflies and flowers.

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Sold to Benefit the Dubin Breast Center at the Mount Sinai Health System

326

Untitled (Rabbit)

2014
oil on wood, in artist's frame
29 3/4 x 23 1/2 in. (75.6 x 59.7 cm)
Signed and dated "Hunt Slonem 2014" on the reverse.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

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New Now Day Sale

New York Auction 29 February 2016 11am