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Property from a Notable Private Collector

Henry Taylor

From Congo to the Capital, and black again

Auction Closed

May 18, 10:53 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Notable Private Collector

Henry Taylor

b. 1958


From Congo to the Capital, and black again 

signed and titled (on the reverse) 

acrylic and collage on wood panel

80 by 76 in.

203.2 by 193 cm.

Executed in 2007.

Please note that this lot will not be available for collection before June 30th, 2023. As a result, the buyer will not be invoiced for payment until that date.
Cardenas Bellanger, Paris
Acquired from the above in 2007 by the present owner
Joanna Fiduccia, "We’re All Water, But Some Of Us Are Muddy, " Paris Go Go, June 2007, illustrated
Zadie Smith, Sarah Lewis, Charles Gaines and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansag, Henry Taylor: The Only Portrait I Ever Painted of My Momma Was Stolen, Los Angeles, 2018, p. 244, illustrated in color and p. 315
Randy Kennedy, "Making It Well: A look inside an artists’ project to honor half a century of CalArts," Ursula, 17 December 2020 (online) 
Stephen West, "Henry Taylor’s Black L.A., at Home and in the Streets," Cultural Daily, 11 November 2022 (online) 
Carolina Miranda, "Henry Taylor, the democratic king of portraiture, makes his L.A. homecoming at MOCA," Los Angeles Times, 17 November 2022 (online) 
Terry R. Myers, "‘The Paintings Emerge as the Stars’: on the Artist’s Artist Henry Taylor," ArtReview, 12 January 2023 (online) 
Michael Slenske, "Henry Taylor, L.A.’s Favorite Painter, Flips the Retrospective," Los Angeles Magazine, 17 April 2023 (online) 
Andy Brumer, "Henry Taylor," Visual Art Source, 30 April 2023 (online)
Paris, Cardenas Bellanger, We’re All Water, But Some Of Us Are Muddy, June - July 2007
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Henry Taylor: B Side, November 2022 - April 2023, p. 136, illustrated in color and p. 228