Vest - Orange

Details

Clive Barker (b. 1940)
Vest - Orange
signed 'CLIVE BARKER' and dated '65' (on the canvas-overlap) and inscribed 'VEST-ORANGE' (on the reverse)
aerosol paint on canvas, unframed
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm.)

Provenance

Keith Morris.

Literature

A. J. Fermon, Clive Barker Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné 1958-2000, Milan, 2002, p. 10, fig. 3, illustrated.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Barker continued making paintings based on found objects until 1965 when he made the present work and lot 177. He created these by spraying aerosol paint through real underclothes used as stencils to create actual-size replicas. As with his sculpture, it was a way of taking a found object as a starting-point from which to produce a credible stand-in for it. Besides Vest - Orange and Pants - Red, White & Blue there is one other in the series entitled Pants.

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