
Property from a Prominent Private Collection
High Society
Live auction begins on:
November 19, 12:00 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prominent Private Collection
Cecily Brown
(b. 1969)
High Society
signed, titled and dated 97-98 (on the reverse); signed and dated '97-98 (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
74 by 98 ⅛ in.
188 by 249.2 cm.
Executed in 1997-98.
Deitch Projects, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1998)
Sotheby's New York, 10 May 2006, lot 3 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
New York, Deitch Projects, Cecily Brown: High Society, April - May 1998, illustrated in color (on the opening invitation) (detail)
Dallas Museum of Art and Philadelphia, Barnes Foundation, Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations, September 2024 - May 2025, pl. 9, pp. 20, 76 (text) and pp. 77, 146, illustrated in color
Patricia Ellis, 100: The Work that Changed British Art, London 2003, no. 88, p. 181, illustrated in color and p. 215 (text)
Exh. Cat., Modern Art Oxford, Cecily Brown: Paintings, 2005, fig. 1, pp. 40, 48, 50 (text) and p. 49, illustrated in color
Ealan Wingate, ed., Cecily Brown, New York 2008, p. 73, illustrated in color
Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art, New York 2008, p. 211 (text)
Eleanor Heartney et al., The Reckoning: Women Artists in the New Millennium, New York 2013, pp. 32-33, illustrated in color and p. 35 (text)
Exh. Cat., New York, The Jewish Museum (and traveling), Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry, 2017-18, p. 144, illustrated in color
Lærke Rydal Jørgensen and Anders Kold, "Paintings as a Marriage between Brain and Body," in: Exh. Cat., Louisiana Museum of Art, Cecily Brown: Where, When, How Often and With Whom, 2018-19, p. 105 (text)
Courtney J. Martin, Jason Rosenfeld, and Francine Prose, Cecily Brown, New York 2020, pp. 16, 56-57, 134 (text), p. 17, illustrated in color and p. 50, illustrated in color (installed in New York, Deitch Projects, 1998)
Patrick Monahan, "Death Becomes Her: Classic Hollywood Movies Have Played a Central, if Ambiguous, Role in the Paintings of Cecily Brown," Air Mail News, 1 April 2023 (text) (online)
Amy Bishop, "A Fearless Feminist: Cecily Brown at the DMA," Arts and Culture Texas, 10 October 2024, illustrated in color (online)
Chadd Scott, "Cecily Brown: A Painter For Her Times, And All Time," Forbes, 15 October 2024, illustrated in color (online)
Verity Babbs, "A Look Inside Cecily Brown's Career-Spanning Show in Dallas," Artnet News, 28 November 2024, illustrated in color (online)
Madison Ford, "Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations," The Brooklyn Rail, December 2024/January 2025, illustrated in color (online)
Eve Hill-Angus, "The Most Exciting Art Shows in Dallas-Fort Worth This February," D Magazine, 8 February 2025, illustrated in color (online)
Elisa Carollo, "Cecily Brown on Revisiting History, Subverting the Gaze and Embracing the Accident," The Observer, 10 March 2025, illustrated in color (online)
Peter Crimmins, "Artist Cecily Brown's First Exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philly is a 30-Year Retrospective," WHYY, 10 March 2025, illustrated in color (installed in Philadelphia, Barnes Foundation, 2025) (online)
Robert Sullivan, "In a New Exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Cecily Brown Takes the Long View," Vogue, 17 March 2025, illustrated in color (online)
Johanna Fateman, "A New Cecily Brown Show at the Barnes Reveals a Painter in her Prime," Cultured Magazine, 19 March 2025, illustrated in color (online)
Jason Rosenfeld, "Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations," The Brooklyn Rail, May 2025 (text) (online)
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