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JOHN CHAMBERLAIN (b. 1927) CARMEN MIRANDA'S SHOES chrome-plated and painted steel H: 90 in. (230 ...

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JOHN CHAMBERLAIN (b. 1927) CARMEN MIRANDA'S SHOES chrome-plated and painted steel H: 90 in. (230 ...
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
(b. 1927)
CARMEN MIRANDA'S SHOES
chrome-plated and painted steel
H: 90 in. (230 cm)
executed in 1989
ESTIMATE: $150,000-250,000
PROVENANCE
James Mayor Gallery, LONDON
You use [colors] it in a graffiti manner, or as though you were writing a foreign language that you didn't really know, so you write as if it were a penmanship exercise rather than communication. That's the way I paint. My graffiti, or what's referred to as graffiti in my work, expresses my thoughts about how painting comes about.
John Chamberlain, Influence and Transformation, PaceWildenstein, New York, 2001
Chamberlain is the only sculptor really using color, the full range, not just metallic shades; his color is as particular, complex and structural as any good painter's. In part it involves the hard, sweet, pastel enamels, frequently roses and ceruleans, of Detroit's imitation elegance for the poor-coupled, Rooseveltianly, with reds and blues.
Donald Judd, John Chamberlain,
PaceWildenstein, New York, 2002