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David Humphrey
Trophy, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, unique signed painting w/provenance

1983

$20,000
£15,117.52
€17,372.72
CA$27,849.88
A$30,981.85
CHF 16,241.07
MX$378,590.61
NOK 206,809.79
SEK 194,682.81
DKK 129,680.76
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David Humphrey Trophy (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago), 1983 Oil on Canvas painting Signed Twice: Hand signed and dated verso, also artist has signed his name and written his home address on the verso. This is a unique work Frame included: held in original vintage frame with museum and gallery labels Measurements: Framed: 48 inches x 68 inches x 1.4 inches Artwork: 45 inches x 47 inches Provenance: Acquired by distinguished collector Gerald S. Elliott from the David McKee Gallery on West 57th Street in Manhattan Donated by Elliott to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Navy Pier Annual Art Auction, 1993 (with labels) Bears labels from the David McKee Gallery on West 57th Street in Manhattan (McKee represented the Estate of Philip Guston for many years), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Annual Art Auction, 1983), Hand signed and dated verso, also artist has written his name and home address on the verso. More about David Humphrey David Humphrey is a professor of art at Yale University. Mr. Humphrey received a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1977 and a MA from New York University in 1980. He has shown nationally and internationally and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize among other awards. An anthology of his art writing, Blind Handshake, was published by Periscope Publishing in 2010. Mr. Humphrey is represented by the Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, and was appointed critic in painting/printmaking at the Yale in 2007. According to Wiki: "David Humphrey is an American painter, art critic, and sculptor associated with the postmodern turn in painting that began in the late 1970s. He is best known for his playful, cartoonish, puzzling paintings, which blend figuration and abstraction and create "allegories" about the medium of painting itself." David Humphrey - official biography from Fredericks & Freiser: David Humphrey has maintained a forty-year commitment to making formally inventive, psycho-socially engaged paintings. Over this time he has continued to transform images from the public realm into imaginative hybrids of the social and eccentrically individual, the historic and vividly contemporary. His work celebrates the peculiar nesting within the familiar. Mixing various representational schema with improvisational abstraction, he tells stories of vexed intimacy, political/ socio reality, and imaginative projections crashing into the real. David Humphrey (b. 1955) has been the subject of 44 solo exhibitions including McKee Gallery, NY; Sikkema Jenkins, NY; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami; and Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati. His work is in the collections of several museums and public collections including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as well as the Saatchi Gallery, London. He is currently teaching in the MFA program of Columbia. He was awarded the Rome Prize in 2008. Humphrey has had five solo exhibitions at - - -Fredericks & Freiser. By the way: Take a close look at this painting: Who/What is the Trophy?
  • Creator:
    David Humphrey (1955, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1983
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 46 in (116.84 cm)Width: 68 in (172.72 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    In original vintage artist's frame as donated by the artist. The wood frame may have some natural aging but the artwork itself is in excellent condition.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1745214350092

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