CAROLINE WALKER | Upstairs Downstairs

Ana Cristea Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly cooler with less blue tones in the original Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals some minute tension cracks and some very faint rub marks in isolated places to all four extreme edges. Further very close inspection reveals some very short and fine hairline cracks throughout and a small circular network of cracks to the centre of the right hand edge. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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“My paintings are formalised fictions concerned with the strange or ambiguous which can arise in the everyday and the banal. They explore the notion of disappointed expectations and a kind of faded grandeur of what could have been” (Caroline Walker, ‘Artists statement’, Liverpool Museums, 2006, online).