Lot 137
  • 137

Chantal Joffe

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • Chantal Joffe
  • Untitled
  • oil on gesso on board
  • 29.1 by 21.6 cm. 11 1/2 by 8 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1995.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in 1996

Exhibited

London, Saatchi Gallery, The New Neurotic Realism, 1999London, Saatchi Gallery, Body Language, November 2013 - March 2014, p. 42, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the skin tone is slightly less saturated in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection reveals a minute and unobtrusive speck of loss towards the centre of the right extreme outer edge. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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Catalogue Note

"When you are painting, that is the most alive, the most present tense, you are ever going to be. There's nothing else." Chantal Joffe in conversation with Alastair Sooke, in: 'Chantal Joffe: I don't find men very interesting to look at', The Telegraph, January 2016, online resource