ELIZABETH PEYTON | SIDNEY

Neugerriemschneider, Berlin

Christie's, London, 28 June 2002, Lot 303

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

“Human beings are very avant-garde, and are as worthy a contemporary subject as anything else." 

- Elizabeth Peyton

Throughout her revolutionary artistic career, Peyton has painted friends, lovers, prominent celebrities, and historical figures alike, all with piercing attention and virtuosic draftsmanship. While Peyton deliberately paints individuals in specific historical moments, she simultaneously abstracts her compositions and disengages her sitters from their social, political, cultural contexts; at the psychological crux of her art is juxtaposition between anonymity and recognition, individuality and uniformity.