Thomas Houseago - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Thursday, May 19, 2022 | Phillips

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  • "Like a modern-day Michaelangelo, the artist [Thomas Houseago] favors potential-laden stances such as a crouch which swells the muscles and suggests movement that is on the cusp of being unleashed. Giant’s face, single-eyed and baboon-snouted, co-opts science fiction and African sculpture in one fell swoop, an idea which is only at odds with the classicized white figure on which it sits if one has never heard of Picasso."
    —Michael Darling

    • Provenance

      Michael Werner Gallery, New York
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Ballroom Marfa, Aaron Curry and Thomas Houseago: Two Face, May 29, 2009–January 3, 2010, pp. 98, 161, 163-4, 176 (illustrated, pp. 11, 99-101)

Property from a Distinguished Florida Collection

355

Giant (fallen)

Tuf-cal, hemp, iron, graphite and charcoal
80 x 63 1/2 x 62 in. (203.2 x 161.3 x 157.5 cm)
Executed in 2009.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000 

Sold for $163,800

Contact Specialist

Patrizia Koenig
Specialist, Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
+1 212 940 1279
pkoenig@phillips.com

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 19 May 2022