LISA YUSKAVAGE | Big Blonde with Teacup

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Saatchi Collection, London
Ash Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Santa Monica, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Lisa Yuskavage, June - July 1994
London, Saatchi Gallery, Young Americans 2: New American Art at the Saatchi Gallery, July - December 1998, n.p., illustrated in color
Waltham, Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood, Paintings 1991 - 2015, September - December 2015, pp. 94-95 and 214-15, illustrated in color

Lane Relyea, "Lisa Yuskavage: Christopher Grimes Gallery," Artforum, November 1994, p. 92, illustrated
Pamela Wye, "Desiring Machines and Exquisite Corpulence: Lisa Yuskavage's Girlies," Sulfur, Spring 1997, pp. 102 and  107, illustrated in color
Robert Moeller, "Looking Beyond the Obvious in Lisa Yuskavage's Mighty Paintings," Hyperallergic, 30 October 2015, online, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. Under extremely close inspection, there are some very fine tension cracks along the center of the upper edge and running intermittently along the right edge of the composition. Under further very close inspection, there are some signs of wear to all four corners and edges, with some associated minor rub marks most notably along the lower edge. Further extremely close inspection reveals a minute pinpoint media accretion to the lower right and the lower center of the composition. Under ultraviolet light inspection, the aforementioned areas fluoresce lightly but do not appear to be the result of restoration. Unframed
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"Entering a Lisa Yuskavage show is like falling into a candy-colored female fever dream [...] In this strange psychosexual universe, female figures stand along, baring their breasts in fields of peachy pink, lemon yellow, or minty blue." Tamara Jenkins, Lisa Yuskavage, Small Paintings, 1993-2004, New York 2004, p. 9