LeeLee Kimmel - 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale Hong Kong Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | Phillips
  • After marks the Asian auction debut for a work by New York-based artist LeeLee Kimmel. Born in 1983, Kimmel earned her fame early on in Hollywood by appearing alongside Tom Cruise in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 classic Eyes Wide Shut, before pursing a passion in Fine Art.

     

    With a practice spanning painting, printed sculpture, and virtual reality, Kimmel is committed to exploring her unique vision through abstraction. Her abstract paintings feature clusters of graphic shapes and biomorphic forms, rendered in the fashion of complex patchwork imagery. Commanding the multi-dimensional, holographic and malleable qualities of virtual reality, After embodies Kimmel’s signature visual lexicon, one which pulls the viewer into a dimension both relaxed and vibrant.

     


    Leelee Kimmel. Photo courtesy of Elisabet Davidsdottir

     

    Kimmel is currently represented by Almine Rech. Her solo exhibitions include LeeLee Kimmel: Nuwar with Almine Rech, Paris (6 June — 27 July 2019); LeeLee Kimmel: Wormhole at Simon Lee London Gallery (4 July – 30 August 2018); LeeLee Kimmel: Channels at the Journal Gallery in New York City (18 January – 19 February 2018). Kimmel’s ongoing inaugural solo exhibition in China and Asia – Night Ride at Almine Rech, Shanghai, is being held between 20 May — 25 June 2022. Her work was also featured in a group exhibition Rainbow Body Problem at No Gallery, Los Angeles (20 May – 19 June 2022).

     

    • Provenance

      Christie's, New York, 10 July 2020, lot 136 (donated by the artist)
      Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

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After

signed, titled and dated '"AFTER" 2020 LeeLee Kimmel LEELEE KIMMEL' on the reverse
acrylic on canvas
185.4 x 221 cm. (72 7/8 x 87 in.)
Painted in 2020.

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Estimate
HK$220,000 - 320,000 
€26,800-38,900
$28,200-41,000

Sold for HK$441,000

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20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale

Hong Kong Auction 21 June 2022