CECILY BROWN | Untitled #17

Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006

This work is in very good condition overall. Under extremely close inspection and raking light, there are fine, unobtrusive and almost indiscernible intermittent tension cracks along all extreme edges. Also under extremely close inspection and in raking light, there are very fine cracks and a faint rub mark on the upper left portion of the canvas. Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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“If I had to place where it all comes from, the moment that interests me the most in twentieth-century painting, and which I feel was not taken that far because abstraction happened in such an extreme way, is the moment when Rothko, Gorky, and Newman were doing those biomorphic things that just hovered on the edge of representation. They’re not quite abstract and they are absolutely grounded in the figure.” Cecily Brown