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Verne Dawson (b. 1961)

Procession

细节

Verne Dawson (b. 1961)
Procession
signed, titled and dated 'Pocession [sic] 2003 Verne Dawson' (on the reverse)
oil and acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 1/8in. (61 x 46cm.)
Executed in 2003

来源

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.

出版

Verne Dawson 432, exh. cat., Dublin, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2004 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

荣誉呈献

Beatriz Ordovás

bordovas@christies.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7389 2920

拍品专文

'They're the most intact manifestation of Paleolithic life. There is a pole holding up the Big Top and you have a ring. Within that ring, animals come in and circle around: it's a model of the heaven and the Zodiac. In a three-ring circus, you have another pole for the moon, and another one for Venus. So it's basically a model of Stone Age astronomy, being done as a ballet. People take their children to circuses because we're most receptive to learning when we're young. It's one way to make sure that the information keeps getting imprinted for generations'.
(V. Dawson, quoted in 'The Outsider in: The Art of Verne Dawson', Cooper Union, Winter 2008, p. 15).