Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in November 2011

New York, Studio Museum in Harlem, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Any Number of Preoccupations, November 2010 - March 2011
New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial, February - May 2012

This work is in very good condition overall. There is some light wear along the edges and at the corners of the canvas. The few impasto peaks are well intact. Under close inspection there is evidence of some hairline surface irregularities in the pigment at the lower left and lower right corners, which are likely due to the artist’s working method. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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"The timelessness is completely important. It’s partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren’t really any markers of time, like furniture or a particular style of shoe that denote a particular period or place. I think that’s why I like the outdoors, because it removes a sense of time and I want the painting to feel timeless, because it increases that sense of omnipotence." Lynette Yiadom-Boakye