Contemporary Art Online | New York
Contemporary Art Online | New York
WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARC JACOBS
ELIZABETH PEYTON | PETE DOHERTY (BABY SHAMBLES)
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December 6, 05:40 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARC JACOBS
ELIZABETH PEYTON
b. 1965
PETE DOHERTY (BABY SHAMBLES)
signed, titled, dated April 2005 and inscribed HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MARC on the reverse
watercolor on paper
Sheet: 10¼ by 7 in. (26 by 17.7 cm.)
Framed: 19⅛ by 16⅜ in. (48.5 by 41.5 cm.)
Acquired directly from the artist in 2005
“Human beings are very avant-garde, and are as worthy a contemporary subject as anything else."
- Elizabeth Peyton
Throughout her revolutionary artistic career, Peyton has painted friends, lovers, prominent celebrities, and historical figures alike, all with piercing attention and virtuosic draftsmanship. While Peyton deliberately paints individuals in specific historical moments, she simultaneously abstracts her compositions and disengages her sitters from their social, political, cultural contexts; at the psychological crux of her art is juxtaposition between anonymity and recognition, individuality and uniformity.