Lot 212
  • 212

Nigel Cooke

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Nigel Cooke
  • Cheeky Red
  • signed, titled and dated 2010 and variously inscribed on the overlap
  • oil on linen
  • 120 by 110 cm. 47 1/4 by 43 3/8 in.

Provenance

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010

Exhibited

New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, She Awoke with a Jerk, May - June 2010

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals a faint and unobtrusive rub mark in the background to the lower left of the figure. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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Catalogue Note

“Cooke’s intention is to unsettle us. His technical mastery is undeniable, but it seems that this skill is consistently put to mis-use” (Mary Horlock, ‘Art Now: Nigel Cooke’, Tate Britain, 7 February 2004, online).