Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art

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Property from an Important Texas Collection

Will Cotton

Domino

Lot Closed

October 4, 05:50 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Will Cotton

b. 1965

Domino


signed, titled and dated 2015 on the reverse

oil on linen

58 by 38 in. (147.3 by 96.5 cm.)

Baldwin Gallery, Aspen

Acquired from the above in 2015

Aspen, Baldwin Gallery, Will Cotton: New Work, December 2015 - January 2016.

“I’ve noticed recently that as an artist gets deeper into the complexity of the subject at hand, it can actually appear from the outside as a kind of stagnation when in fact it’s anything but. As I mentioned, lately, I’ve become more interested in rendering surface detail. how hard and shiny is the candy, how soft is the flesh, how fragile is the meringue. Most of the core ideas that excite me at the moment, (desire, indulgence, self-denial) have already had my attention in one way or another for several years, but in my most recent paintings I’m paring down some of the more specific aspects of those questions. Why does the dream of utopia always seem destined for failure? Why are pleasure and guilt so inseparable?”


Will Cotton, “Interview with Artist Will Cotton,” Designboom.