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Beauty Examined by Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall

Beauty Examined, 1993

Acrylic and collage on canvas
214.9 x 252.1 cm (84.63 x 99.25 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (19 May 2022)
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May 19, 2022
Sotheby'sNew YorkThe Now Evening Auction11
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

214.9 x 252.1 cm (84.63 x 99.25 in)

Materials

acrylic and collage on canvas

Signature

signed K. Marshall and dated 93 (lower right)

Provenance

Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles

Charles Sims and Nancy Adams-Sims (acquired from the above in April 1993)

Acquired as a gift from the above in December 2019 by the present owner

Exhibited

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Overland Park, Kansas, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art; St. Louis, University of Missouri; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; Winston-Salem, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Kerry James Marshall: Telling Stories: Selected Paintings, 1994-1995, p. 9, illustrated in color, pp. 21, 32 (text)

St. Louis, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women's Health in Contemporary Art, 2004, no. 27, pp. 68-69, illustrated in color

Antwerp, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen; Copenhagen, Kunsthal Chalottenborg; Barcelona, Fundació Antoni Tàpies; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía , Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff, 2013-2014, p. 67, illustrated in color

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Kerry James Marshall: Mastry , 2016-2017, no. 21, p. 36 (text), pp. 112-13, illustrated in color, pp. 114-15, illustrated in color (detail)

Literature

Nav Haq, “The Lack in the Image Bank: Kerry James Marshall's Reclamation of Pictures,” Mousse 39 , Summer, 2013, p. 119 (text)

Antwaun Sargent, “Kerry James Marshall's Mastry,” Interview Magazine , April 2016 (text) (online)

Angela N. Carroll, "Kerry James Marshall's Radical Joy and Decolonization," BmoreArt , December 2016, illustrated in color (online)

Barbara Isenberg, "For Kerry James Marshall, the mission is clear: Bring portraits of black life into very white art museums," Los Angeles Times , 7 March 2017, illustrated in color

Tatiana Istomina, “Kerry James Marshall,” Art in America, April 2017, p. 109 (text)

Ciara Moloney, "Kerry James Marshall's celebration of black bodies," Apollo , April 2017, illustrated in color (online)

Diana Tuite, “Review of Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 3, No. 1, Summer, 2017 (text)

May Friedman, Carla Rice & Jen Rinaldi, eds., Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice, New York, 2020, pp. 32-33 (text)

Description

Property Sold to Benefit Loma Linda University

Kerry James Marshall

b. 1955

Beauty Examined

signed K. Marshall and dated 93 (lower right)

acrylic and collage on canvas

84 ⅝ by 99 ¼ in.

214.9 by 252 cm.

Executed in 1993.

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收益惠澤洛馬琳達大學

克里・詹姆斯・馬歇爾

生於1955年

《剖析美麗》

款識:藝術家簽名K. Marshall並紀年93(右下)

壓克力彩、拼貼及畫布

84 ⅝ x 99 ¼ 英寸;214.9 x 252 公分

1993年作