HENRY TAYLOR | Untitled (Girl on Green Couch)

Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling to the edges and corners of the canvas. The drips and surface inconsistencies are inherent to the artist's working method. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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"What type of painter is Henry Taylor? He is described by others with labels he mostly rejects—outsider, portraitist, protest painter, folk artist—or rejects as far as they are intended as mutually exclusive terms...It's his practice to seek people out—in the street, at the art fair, at his Momma's house—and figure them in paint, but each figure is configured differently, sometimes hewing closely to verisimilitude, sometimes ignoring it, sometimes attending to the proportion of limbs, other times leaving them out entirely. This variousness of approach finds its mirror in his life, which has also been a story of many different elements combined." Zadie Smith, Henry Taylor, New York 2018, p. 8