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The History of Now: The Collection of David Teiger Sold to Benefit Teiger Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art
ELIZABETH PEYTON | JOHN KERRY (ANTI-WAR RALLY)
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October 2, 06:30 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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The History of Now: The Collection of David Teiger Sold to Benefit Teiger Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art
ELIZABETH PEYTON
b.1965
JOHN KERRY (ANTI-WAR RALLY)
signed, titled and dated 2004 on the reverse
ink on paper
Sheet: 20 by 14¼ in. (50.8 by 36.2 cm.)
Framed: 30 by 23⅝ in. (76.2 by 60 cm.)
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
Acquired from the above by David Teiger in November 2004
“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.