Untitled (Morrisey 7)

Details

Ryan McGinley (B. 1977)
Untitled (Morrisey 7)
signed 'Ryan McGinley' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
C-print laid on card
48 x 67 ¼in. (122 x 170.7cm.)
Executed in 2005, this work is number two from an edition of three

Provenance

Team Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.

Exhibited

New York, Team Gallery, Irregular Regulars: Ryan McGinley, 2007.
London, Saatchi Gallery, Out of Focus: Photography, 2012 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Amersfoort, Kunsthal KadE, Ryan McGinley Photographs 1999-2015, 2015.

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Lot Essay

Ryan McGinley’s Untiteld (Morrissey 7) belongs to a series of works created between 2004 and 2006, for which the artist travelled to dozens of Morrissey concerts in the US, the UK, and Mexico. The resultant photos, bathed in densely saturated colour and light, feature hoards of fans submerged in a state of enamoured devotion. Based in New York, McGinley is fascinated by youth culture, and his candid photographs capture the Zeitgeist of a particular generation of adolescents. Another work from the series is held in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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