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Richard Phillips

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Phillips
  • Blessed Mother

  • signed and dated 2000 on the overlap

  • oil on canvas
  • 84 by 72 in. 213.4 by 182.9 cm.

Provenance

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2000

Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Richard Phillips, March - April 2001
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Richard Phillips, September - November 2002, pp. 50-51, illustrated

Literature

Jens Asthoff, "Richard Phillips: Kunstverein in Hamburg", Kunstforum International, no. 162, November - December 2002, pp. 293-295, illustrated
Christian Rattemeyer, "Contemporary American Sublime / Das amerikanische Erhabene von heute", Parkett, vol. 71, 2004, pp. 84-93, illustrated

Catalogue Note

"Unbelievably, there is a possibility of an art that, after the nineties, will not preach or illustrate, that will be literally destructive of the coherence and order that define the leveld-out stasis of modern, socially relativistic culture. The hope is to set up favorable conditions in relationship to thes topics, whereby patterns of thought may be ignited through individual, direct, sensual experience of the living and the beauty in painting as Art." - Richard Phillips (Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Kunstverein, Richard Phillips, 2002, p. 102)