Chantal Joffe
Katy (Sunday in February)
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:26:00 AM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Chantal Joffe
b. 1969
Katy (Sunday in February)
Executed in 2025.
Oil on panel
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in. (100 x 69.8 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro
Chantal Joffe (b. 1969, St. Albans, Vermont; lives in London, United Kingdom) is known for her expressive and emotionally resonant portraits. Distinguished by bold brushstrokes and vivid colors, Joffe’s paintings often depict people close to her, particularly women and children, in intimate and everyday moments. This particular work depicts Katy Hessel, a British art historian and author of the bestseller The Story of Art Without Men. Joffe has exhibited at venues including the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Whitechapel Gallery, London; National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík; National Portrait Gallery, London; and the Jewish Museum, New York. Her work is held in the collections of Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Detroit Institute of Arts; National Portrait Gallery, London; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, among others.