John Wesley - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Phillips

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紐約拍賣 2022年11月16日

  • From its two-toned color palette to the symmetrical oscillation of silhouetted female forms, Let’s Get Out of the Hall is a prime example of John Wesley’s work. Debuted at Kassel’s Documenta 5 in 1972, Let’s Get Out of the Hall illustrates Wesley’s unmatched ability to convey erotic desires and fears found deep within the human psyche.
     
    Inspired by Andy Warhol’s repeated Tomato Soup Cans, Giorgio de Chirico’s metaphysical paintings, and the comic strip Blondie, Wesley continually combined the characteristics of playful cartoons with tantalizing imagery that together draw the viewer into a sense of allurement. Let’s Get Out of the Hall tessellates the contour of female bare legs in a lyrical dance, while being pursued by an open-mouthed dalmation in a metaphorical erotic chase. Composed in his signature muted pinks against a powder blue backdrop, the contrastingly stark black contours position the work decidedly in the Pop canon, while retaining its unique Wesleyan qualities.

    "Wesley was intent rather on depicting the habits and common places with which we fill our lives as darkly humorous, and he did so with all conceivable visual cunning."i –Martin Hentschel

    Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Image: © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY


    i Martin Hentschel, John Wesley’s Wondrous World, in John Wesley: The Bumsteads, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, 2007, p. 6.

    • 來源

      洛杉磯Daniel Weinberg畫廊
      亞特蘭大私人收藏
      Kevin Bruk Fine Art畫廊
      現藏者購自上述來源

    • 過往展覽

      Kassel, Documenta 5, June 30–October 5, 1972
      Los Angeles, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Time and Again, June 15–July 20, July 2002

    • 文學

      José Pierre, An Illustrated Dictionary of Pop Art, London, 1977, p. 157 (illustrated)
      Christopher Knight, "Tim Bavington Sprays Exuberant, Visual Music," Los Angeles Times, July 12, 2002, online
      Germano Celant, ed., John Wesley, exh. cat., Fondazione Prada, Venice, 2009, no. 226, pp. 139, 508 (illustrated, p. 139)

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約翰．衛斯理

《我們走出大廳吧》

款識："LET'S GET OUT OF THE HALL" John Wesley 1971（畫背）
壓克力 畫布
36 x 47 英吋 (91.4 x 119.4 公分)
1971年作

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估價
$90,000 - 120,000 

成交價$157,500

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

紐約拍賣 2022年11月16日