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Lot 478
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Cecily Brown

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
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Description

  • Cecily Brown
  • The Merry Widow

  • signed, titled and dated '98 on the reverse

  • oil on linen
  • 76 by 98 in. 193 by 248.9 cm.

Provenance

Deitch Projects, New York

Catalogue Note

"It wasn't so much the use of sexual imagery that created a release, it was the attempt to bend and twist pictorial space. I wanted to get the figure off the ground, as in the earth, and integrate it more with the flat ground of the picture. That was probably when I first started trying to use ambiguous space, one that defied gravity. I wanted it to be impossible for the viewer to know where they stood in relation to the action." - Cecily Brown (Exh. Cat., Modern Art Oxford, Cecily Brown: Paintings, 2005, p.41)