Lot 101
  • 101

NINA CHANEL ABNEY | Paradise Found

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Nina Chanel Abney
  • Paradise Found
  • signed and dated 2009 on the overlap
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 180 by 176 cm. 70 7/8 by 69 1/4 in.

Provenance

Kravets/Wehby, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

London, FRED LTD, Nina Chanel Abney GO BERSERKER!, May - June 2010

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly lighter in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection two pinprick specks of loss to the centre of the extreme left edge and some extremely light handling marks towards the lower right and upper right tips. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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Catalogue Note

"Easy to swallow, hard to digest. The playfulness of my work is a result of my use of vivid colours and my interest in satirical cartoons. I love the fact that anything taboo suddenly becomes tolerable as long as it’s not 'real'." (Nina Chanel Abney cited in: 'Easy to Swallow, Hard to Digest: An Interview with Nina Chanel Abney’, Live Unchained, March 2011, online).