Shara Hughes - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, October 13, 2022 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Museum 52, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008

  • Exhibited

    London, Museum 52, Shara Hughes: Thank You For Hosting, 31 January - 1 March 2008

  • Artist Biography

    Shara Hughes

    Shara Hughes (b. 1981) earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and later attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 

    The artist is best known for her colorful landscapes which bridge a gap between the real and the imagined, and the beautiful and the chaotic. Working intuitively, the artist does not typically pre-plan her canvases. Rather her process involves giving form and shape to her previously applied brushstrokes and reacting to her last applications of paint and color through more painting. 

    Hughes has participated in numerous group exhibitions, at venues such as FLAG Art Foundation, NY (2023); ICA Miami (2022); De la Cruz Collection (2022); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (2021); Dallas Art Museum, Dallas (2019); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2018); and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (2015). The artist was also included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Hughes’ work belongs to many prominent museum collections including the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; the Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the Jorge M. Perez Collection, Miami, FL; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA; the M Woods Museum, Beijing, China; the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX; the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; the Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY; among others. Hughes lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

     
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Pool House

signed and dated 'SHARA HUGHES 2008' upper right; signed, titled and dated 'SHARA HUGHES Jan 2008 "Pool House"' on the reverse
acrylic, gouache, pastel metallic ink, graphite, paper collage and sand on paper
48.1 x 67.1 cm (18 7/8 x 26 3/8 in.)
Executed in January 2008.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for £45,360

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 13 October 2022