Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art
I Love - The Eyelid Clicks/ I See/ Cold Poetry Chapter 18
Lot Closed
October 4, 04:09 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
R.H. Quaytman
b. 1961
I Love - The Eyelid Clicks/ I See/ Cold Poetry Chapter 18
signed, titled and dated 2010 on the reverse
oil, silkscreen ink and gesso on wood
52⅜ by 32⅜ in. (133 by 82.2 cm.)
Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
A trailblazing contemporary artist, R.H. Quaytman is most often noted for her decades-long “chapters'' series. These “chapters” -- each sequentially titled and individually composed -- encapsulate designated and cohesive sets of paintings. Each grouping evokes an individual meaning as well as an specific significance within the larger sequence of chapters. Within a greater context, each chapter exists in congruence with the chapters that come before and after it. These works are “executed on plywood panels that conform to a consistent set of geometrically interrelated dimensions. Screen-printed photographic imagery appears in each chapter, as do abstract compositions. Despite these rigorously held consistencies, Quaytman’s work is not reducible to a systematically applied set of rules. Instead, the artist uses these parameters to explore an array of subjects, while maintaining an overarching, ongoing investigation of the factors that enable a painting to generate meaning, whether they be its content, its mode of production, or the context in which it is encountered.”
Guggenheim Museum, R. H. Quaytman.