IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY A SELECTION OF WORKS FROM THE GOETZ COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT CHARITY PROJECTS

Carroll Dunham (b. 1949)

Blue Planet

Details

Carroll Dunham (b. 1949)
Blue Planet
signed 'Carroll Dunham' (lower left); dated 'November-December 1996 January 1997' (lower right)
acrylic, ink, graphite and styrofoam balls on canvas
89 1/8 x 60in. (213.5 x 152.3cm.)
Executed in 1996-1997

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York.
Lehmann Maupin, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997.

Literature

Carrol Dunham: Paintings, exh. cat., New York, New Museum, 2002 (illustrated in colour, pp. 111-113).
F. Hirsch, 'Dunham's Demonology', in Art in America, January 2003 (illustrated in colour on the cover).

Exhibited

Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum, American Art from the Goetz Collection, 2001 (illustrated in colour, p. 26).

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Lot Essay

'The whole cluster of things around cartoon and animation is one of the common denominators in our visual language, almost analogous to what we think of as primitivism it is not necessary to explain. Its also a vehicle for a lot of very disturbing things to be presented without being disturbing.'
(C. Dunham, quoted in 'An Art World Secret Plumbs the Mysterious Id', The New York Times, 27 October 2002, reproduced at: https://www.blumandpoe.com/sites/default/files/press/NYTimes102702.pdf)

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