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Lot 70
  • 70

Christopher Wool

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
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Description

  • Christopher Wool
  • Untitled (P 285)
  • signed, titled and dated 1998 on the stretcher
  • Enamel on canvas
  • 229 by 152.5cm.; 90 by 60in.

Provenance

Luhring Augustine, New York
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Pierre Hubert, Geneva
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the illustration fails to convey the slight variegation of the black colour. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There are handling marks to the right, edge and top edges, most notably towards the centre of the right edge and towards the top right corner. There is a small, short and thin scuff to the centre of the bottom edge. No restoration is visible under ultraviolet light.
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Catalogue Note

"I often want a painting to feel like it is the result of a certain process... a process that was not simply the painting / picturing process of putting together a formalistically successful painting. I've made paintings that were 'pictures' created merely by the act / process of painting over a previous image."

The artist cited in: Hans Werner Holzwarth Ed., Christopher Wool, New York 2008, p. 160