Damien Hirst - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
Damien Hirst’s Untitled Skull with Spine is one of the rare examples of the artist’s explorations in representational painting. Between 2006-2008, Hirst was experimenting with a series of works that differ starkly from his colourful, vibrant, or diamond-encrusted pieces that otherwise tend to dominate his artistic vocabulary.
Michaela Yearwood-Dan - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
“In moving away from figurative work, I felt like I was shedding this external layer of having to speak on behalf of a wider group – of being a woman, being black, being queer – all those other personas that I embody. By removing myself from this figurative context, which facilitates the continued commodification of the black figure, I was able to create work that felt more honest to me in terms of what I enjoyed making.” —Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Szabolcs Bozó - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
“I cleaned in restaurants for years with so-called Henry vacuum cleaner. The characteristic of this industrial machine is that two large eyes and a smiling head are printed on them. Probably it could have burned into my memory. The other cartoon-like characters are the product of my imagination, I could draw them for days. I used to say that instead of Cubism, I represent the Cuteism movement.” —Szabolcs Bozó
David Hockney - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Raymond Foye looking at Brooklyn Dec 1982 #5 David Hockney' lower edge photographic collage on card 94 x 148.6 cm (37 x 58 1/2 in.) Executed in 1982, this work is number 5 from an edition of 10.
Ania Hobson - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
“Two years ago, I went through a really bad breakup, involving lots of gaslighting. I was so angry and then my painting just went red. It was like, ‘Bang, bang’. I wanted these women to look like part of an army, walking out of fire and towards somebody, like they’re on a mission.” —Ania Hobson
Scott Kahn - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
“I wait for inspiration to pick up the brush and put it on canvas. It’s a little magical and mysterious. I often have to wait for that inspiration, that moment. The impulse that gets me to the canvas generally comes from something very recent in my life. Something I’ve seen, maybe even frequently. It could be a feeling. I don’t consider myself a conceptual artist, but I certainly want to express some symbolic and philosophical meaning through my work.” —Scott Kahn
teamLab - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
“We believe that art is an act performed by modern people to expand the notion of beautiful, just like ancient human beings did with flowers, starting to consider and call them beautiful. We don’t instantly understand the reasons or meaning behind this expansion. However, through these positive expansions of beautiful, in the future, people may behave differently, in a way that we can’t understand with today’s limited knowledge.” —teamLab
Amani Lewis - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
“The action of painting allows me to symbolize and represent people in my community as vibrant, content in their surroundings and beautiful. All the materials assist to make that happen. They draw the viewer to the piece and create moments of awe where they are able to see the subject through my eyes and how I see them.” — Amani Lewis
Jiří Georg Dokoupil - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
“In the very beginning, the concept of painting with soap bubbles completely fascinated me, because I was dealing with the idea of doing something with nothing. Over the years, the concept shifter to something I would call a real painting… As a child I loved the Impressionists, and I am still in love with impressionism, so I became some sort of a conceptual impressionist.” —Jiří Georg Dokoupil
Jeff Sonhouse - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips
“The artist is known for incorporating unconventional elements such as steel wool, speaking to toughness and resilience; and matches, suggesting fragility and evanescence. Yet he never steers the viewer in a single direction with regard to interpreting these dichotomies, instead favoring a thought-provoking ambiguity that makes his work seem as playful as it is incisive.” —Jeff Sonhouse
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