Walking Woman

Details

Chantal Joffe (b. 1969)
Walking Woman
oil on board
120 x 48 7/8in. (305 x 124cm.)
Executed in 2004

Provenance

Victoria Miro, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004.

Exhibited

London, Saatchi Gallery, Body Language, 2013-2014 (illustrated in colour, p. 37).

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Lot Essay

A painted shot ripped from a fashion magazine, Walking Woman is a powerful expressive example of Chantal Joffe’s painterly style that offers an uncompromising sense of power, complexity and impetus to the female figures she portrays. Critically analyzing the anodyne characteristics and expressions stylists and photographers have popularized in high fashion, Joffe reanimates through paint the faces that were previously mask-like, seemingly imbuing her anonymous women with life again.

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