UNTITLED (6/09)
2009
mixed media on linen
16 x 14 inches

One of the most exhibited and honored artists of the past four decades, Carroll Dunham has produced a vast body of paintings and drawings that pull from high and low visual cultures, and he is not shy about incorporating sexually charged forms of the human body into his compositions. Here Dunham depicts in a typically broad cartoon-like way parts of female human anatomy, focusing on things that polite society usually does not, but creating a sophisticated composition in which the figure begins to literally become the landscape (perhaps in a nod to Willem de Kooning’s celebrated woman/landscape paintings). Adding to the work’s layers is the fact that with a few alternate strokes and forms, Dunham could just as easily have created a broadly brushed, color saturated abstraction. Carroll Dunham received the 2004 Skowhegan Medal for his career as a painter, and since the late 1970s his work has been included in two Whitney Biennials, dozens of museum and gallery exhibitions, and collected by major museums around the world.

estimated retail value:  $75,000

opening bid:  $50,000

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