Carroll Dunham
Female Self Model
Lot closes
June 7, 03:15:00 AM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 28,000 USD
Current Bid
15,000 USD
1 Bid
Reserve met
Lot Details
Description
Carroll Dunham
b. 1949
Female Self Model
Executed in 2021.
Watercolor, water soluble crayon, watercolor pencil and pencil on paper
19 x 16 1/ 2 in. (48 x 41.7 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist
Carroll Dunham (b. 1949, New Haven, CT; lives in New York, NY) is a widely acclaimed artist whose remarkable body of work includes paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. For over fifty years Dunham’s work has constantly cannibalized itself. His “self-recycling” revisits aspects of human existence—trees, guns, the planet, bathers, and wrestlers, for example—while simultaneously insisting on the formal attributes of painting. He has been featured in several MCA exhibitions including Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago (2020), Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion (2011), and Examining Pictures (1999), and recent solo exhibitions include presentations at the National Museum, Oslo; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; and Denver Art Museum. His work is in the MCA Collection and numerous other national and international public collections. His drawing retrospective will open at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2026.