Heart

Details

Lisa Yuskavage (b. 1962)
Heart
signed and dated 'Lisa Yuskavage 1996-7' (on the reverse)
oil on linen
84 x 72 in. (213.4 x 182.9 cm.)
Painted in 1996-1997.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, 2002

Literature

C. Bock, "Kitsch? Kunst? Softporno?," Die Presse, 6 June 2008, p. 24.

Exhibited

Mexico City, Museo Tamayo, Lisa Yuskavage, June-September 2006, pp. 28-29 (illustrated).
New York, Cheim & Read, The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women, June-September 2009.

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Lot Essay

I decided to make the images inside these painted bodies be images of what the spirit of the painting itself would look like... I always equated the experience of puberty as everyone's collective memory of heightened vulnerability...and I was hoping to equate that collective memory of fragility with my own and the painting's feelings of being vulnerable to the viewer.
—Lisa Yuskavage

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