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Henry Taylor

Before Gerhard Richter there was Cassi

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November 19, 12:00 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Henry Taylor

(b. 1958)


Before Gerhard Richter there was Cassi

signed, dated 2017 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

84 by 66 in.

213.4 by 167.6 cm.

Executed in 2017.

Acquired directly from the artist in 2019 by the present owner

Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Henry Taylor: B Side, November 2022 - January 2024, p. 134, illustrated in color

Hugo Vitrani, "Henry Taylor: Black is beautiful" in: "Le meilleur & le pire de 2017," Beaux Arts Magazine, No. 402, December 2017, p. 73, illustrated in color

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, "Henry Taylor's Wild Heart Can't Be Broken," Vulture, 28 June 2018, illustrated in color (online)

Zadie Smith, "Promiscuous Painting: Henry Taylor's portraits of American life," The New Yorker, 30 July 2018, p. 29 (text)

Zadie Smith, "Promiscuous Painting: Henry Taylor All Over the Damn Place," in: Henry Taylor: The Only Portrait I Ever Painted of My Momma Was Stolen, New York 2018, p. 11 (text) and p. 234, illustrated in color

Victoria L. Valentine, "For LA Artist Henry Taylor 'Blackness is Not an Uneasy, Overcompensating Assertion, Blackness Just Is," Culture Type, 30 August 2020, illustrated in color (online)

Jerry Saltz, "The Fearless Freedom of Henry Taylor," Vulture, 3 October 2023, illustrated in color (online)

Sebastian Smee, "What do art lovers need right now? The deep humanity of Henry Taylor.," The Washington Post, 25 October 2023, illustrated in color (online)

Jozefien Van Beek, "Painter Henry Taylor, Chronicler of African-American Life Today," De Standaard, 23 November 2023 (text) (online)

CT Jones, "The Vivid World of Henry Taylor, Rolling Stone, 6 January 2024, illustrated in color (online)

Rebecca Schiffman, "Henry Taylor's Portraits at the Whitney Museum Ask Us to See More Than Their Subjects," Art & Object, 9 January 2024, illustrated in color (online)