Lot 143
  • 143

Chantal Joffe

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • Chantal Joffe
  • Cranberry
  • signed, titled and dated 1995 on the reverse
  • oil and gesso on board
  • 29.1 by 21.6cm.; 11 1/2 by 8 1/2 in.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the present owner in 1996

Exhibited

London, Saatchi Gallery, Body Language, 2013-14

Literature

Ex. Cat., London, Saatchi Gallery, The New Neurotic Realism, 1998, n.p., illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the figure's dress has more green undertones in the original.Condition: This work is in very good condition. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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Catalogue Note

“When you’re looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.” 

Chantal Joffe
in conversation with Stella McCartney, ‘Chantal Joffe,’ Interview Magazine, 6 August 2009, online resource