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Lot 79
  • 79

Steven Parrino

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
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Description

  • Steven Parrino
  • DK. Blu Yank Shifter

  • signed, titled and dated 1997 on the stretcher of the first panel; dated '97 on the overlap of the fourth panel; numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 on the stretcher of each panel respectively

  • oil on canvas
  • each: 200 by 100cm.; 78¾ by 39⅜in.
  • overall: 200 by 400cm.; 78¾by 157½in.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1997

Condition

Colour:The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the blue is slightly lighter in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. No restoration is apparent under ultra violet light.
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Catalogue Note

"When I started making paintings, the word on painting was "PAINTING IS DEAD." I saw this as an interesting place for painting... death can be refreshing, so I started engaging in necrophilia..... Approaching history in the same way that Dr. Frankenstein approaches body parts... Nature Morte... my contemporaries were NO WAVERS... BLACK FLAG-ERS... and this death painting thing led to a sex and death painting thing... that became an existence thing... that became a "Cease to Exist" thing... A kind of post-punk existentialism. I am still concerned with "art about art", but I am also aware that "art about art" still reflects the time in which it was made. Content is not denied... Content is not obvious... Content is sustained in the air or the vibe of the work."
(Steven Parrino, The No Texts, Jersey City 2003, p. 43)