LOT Phillips de Pury & Company  /  CONTEMPORARY PART I  / 

42

GARY HUME (b. 1962) PRESENT FROM AN OCTOGENARIAN gloss paint on four MDF panels 82 x 196 in. (208...

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD
GARY HUME (b. 1962) PRESENT FROM AN OCTOGENARIAN gloss paint on four MDF panels 82 x 196 in. (208...
GARY HUME
(b. 1962)
PRESENT FROM AN OCTOGENARIAN
gloss paint on four MDF panels
82 x 196 in. (208.3 x 498 cm)
executed 1991-1992 <p>PROVENANCE
White Cube, LONDON <p>EXHIBITED
LONDON, The Saatchi Gallery, FIONA RAE/GARY HUME, January-April 1997, n.p. (illustrated) <p>LITERATURE
C. Wallis, ed., GARY HUME: BRITISH PAVILION XLVIII VENICE BIENNALE, LONDON, 1999, p. 80 (illustrated)
PRESENT FROM AN OCTOGENARIAN 1991/1992 is a handsome painting comprised of four panels. The central pair are painted dark blue grey. Buried within the thick gloss, like muffled signs, is the residual geometry of two sets of doors. But the flanking panels mock the restraint of their neighbors; they are emblazoned with fierce orange rectangles. War has been declared between the conflicting poles of minimalist purity and decorative flamboyance. Pattern making assers the right to surface.
S. Kent, exh. cat., The Saatchi Gallery, LONDON, 1997
Sign In to Bookmark Lot