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Anj Smith (b. 1979)
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oil on canvas
7 5/8 x 9 5/8in. (19.5 x 24.3cm.)
Painted in 2006

Provenance

IBID Projects, London.

Exhibited

London, IBID Projects, Feral Demosphere, 2006.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

'Anj Smith's meticulous yet elusive paintings explore the dark underside of the fashion industry's quest for the new, in images that are a cross between a bricolage of current style and momento mori. With the eye of a miniaturist she observes the relationship between street and couture style as played out by her female subjects that are both threatening and tortured by the clothes they wear and the poses they strike. Here fashion has become the new drug, with all its alienating and ecstatic possibilities' (P. Bronstein quoted from https://sartorialart.com).

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