Carroll Dunham (b. 1949)

Garbage, Ratio (Shoulder)

Details

Carroll Dunham (b. 1949)
Garbage, Ratio (Shoulder)
signed twice, inscribed twice, titled twice and dated twice 'C. Dunham Jan. 2007 NYC "Garbage, Ratio (Shoulder)" (on the stretchers); signed with artists initials, inscribed and dated again ‘Dec. C.D. Dec. 2006’ (upper edge of left element); signed with the artist's initials again, inscribed again and dated again ‘C. D. April/May- Dec, 2006’ (upper edge of right element)
oil, graphite and cardboard, plastic and clay collage on canvas, in two parts
left: 72 x 40 in. (182.8 x 101.5 cm.)
right: 36 x 20 in. (91.5 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 2006.

Provenance

Gladstone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Gladstone Gallery, Carroll Dunham: Paintings, March-April 2007.
London, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Strike a Pose, January-February 2009.

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Lot Essay

“One could say that this figure…is the provisional result of a struggle for survival. He has proved the fittest.”
- (Å. Thorkildsen, quoted in X#*@(ING) INDEX! Who is pointing at who - and why - in Carroll Dunham’s Drawings, London, 2006)

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