John Currin - New Now New York Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | Phillips

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  • “As any painting that is good, it has a certain kind of magic. I’m not a big spiritual believer, or magical type of person, but I do think that painting is mostly magic, and at least has the effect of magic; it’s very hard to control how it turns out. You can control how it looks but you really can’t control the magic.”
    —John Currin

    • Provenance

      Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
      Laura and Stafford Broumand, New York
      Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
      David Teiger (acquired from the above in May 2003)
      Sotheby’s, New York, November 15, 2018
      Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, John Currin, March 21–May 2, 1992

    • Literature

      Francesco Bonami, "U.S. Pain: New American Figuration," Flash Art, vol. 25, no. 164, May–June 1992, p. 101 (illustrated)
      John Currin, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2003, pp. 33, 115 (illustrated, p. 33)
      Kara Vander Weg and Rose Dergan, eds., John Currin, New York, 2006, pp. 72–73, (illustrated, p. 73)

180

Brown Lady

signed and dated “John Currin 91” on the overlap
oil on canvas
28 x 26 1/4 in. (71.1 x 66.7 cm)
Painted in 1991.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$180,000 - 220,000 

Sold for $165,100

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen
Head of Sale, New Now
212 940 1207
asemjen@phillips.com

New Now

New York Auction 8 March 2023