Lot 38
  • 38

Cecily Brown

Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
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Description

  • Cecily Brown
  • Suddenly Last Summer
  • signed and dated 1999 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 100 x 110 in. 254 x 280 cm.

Provenance

Gagosian Gallery, New York
Jon Weaver, Bloomfield Hills
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, May 14, 2009, lot 14
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Cecily Brown Paintings 1998 - 2000, January - February 2000, cat. no. 23, illustrated in color
Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Cecily Brown, August 2006 - January 2007, cat. no. 5, p. 17, illustrated in color
London, Parasol Unit, Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real, November 2009 - February 2010, cat. no. 16, pp. 16-17, illustrated in color

Literature

Ealan Wingate, ed., Cecily Brown, New York, 2008, p. 95, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. There is stable cracking in the flesh tone pigment, primarily located in the left half of the canvas, which is related to the drying process. Under Ultraviolet light there are no apparent restorations. The painting is not framed.
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