Lot 181
  • 181

KAREN KILIMNIK | Goldie Hawn

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Karen Kilimnik
  • Goldie Hawn
  • signed and dated sept 25 oct 24 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 35.5 by 45.7 cm. 14 by 18 in.
  • Executed in 1996.

Provenance

Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice
Alessandro Grassi, Milan
Thence by descent to the present owner 

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection reveals very few short and faint rubmarks in isolated places. Very close inspection reveals two very short and fine cracks; one to the upper left hand corner tip and one to the lower right hand corner tip. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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Catalogue Note

“These paintings should be kitsch, or at least about kitsch. Yet they are not so easily dismissed, in part because their swooniness is so idiosyncratic. Even at a time when faux naivety has become codified as an art world mode, these glowing canvases are utterly distinctive” (Steven Stern cited in: ‘The Uses of Enchantment’, Frieze, 3 March 2004 online).