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Lot 17: Kehinde Wiley

Est: $50,000 USD - $70,000 USDSold:
PhillipsNew York, NY, USMarch 08, 2011

Item Overview

Description

Fall
Signed and dated "Kehinde Wiley 09" on the reverse.

Dimensions

72 x 60 in. (182.9 x 152.4 cm).

Artist or Maker

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Date

2009

Provenance

Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles

Notes

Kehinde Wiley’s portraits of African American men collate modern culture with the influence of Old Masters. Incorporating a range of vernaculars culled from art historical references, Wiley’s work melds a fluid concept of modern culture, ranging from French Rococo to today’s urban landscape. By collapsing history and style into a unique contemporary vision, Wiley interrogates the notion of master painter, “making it at once critical and complicit.” Vividly colorful and often adorned with ornate gilded frames, Wiley’s large-scale figurative paintings, which are illuminated with a barrage of baroque or rococo decorative patterns, posit young black men, fashioned in urban attire, within the field of power reminiscent of Renaissance artists such as Tiepolo and Titian.
(Excerpt from the Artist's Statement for, "RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture," Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C.,  February 8 - October 26, 2008)

Auction Details

Under the Influence

by
Phillips
March 08, 2011, 12:00 AM EST

450 West 15 Street, New York, NY, 10011, US