Carroll Dunham

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993

New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Carroll Dunham, February - March 1993

This work is in very good condition overall. All collage elements are well intact. There is some light wear along the edges and at the corners of the canvas. Under close inspection there is evidence of some minor surface dust within the recesses of the collaged objects. Under Ultraviolet light inspection a few scattered areas lightly fluoresce but are not the result of restoration. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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"The mounds are abstract but they also seem sentient, as if they had personalities. They bring the village gods of India—bright colored lumps with huge eyes—to mind, but most of all they refer back to Philip Guston's monumental, thickly painted heads from the 70's. In fact, the qualities that defined Guston's work—an appetite for the grotesque blended with keen sensitivity to the processes of painting—also apply to Mr. Dunham's new paintings. He couldn't have picked a better model, and he's doing it proud." Holland Cotter "Art In Review," New York Times, 5 March 1993