Modern and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023
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About this Item
signed and dated 2008; signed and inscribed with the artist's name, the date, the title, medium and 'New York City' on a strip of paper adhered to the reverse
Notes
Eschewing conventional objective painting practice on the one hand, and pure abstraction on the other, her representations on linen and stitched burlap of highly acculturated kitsch images of plants and animals, words, musical notes and quotations address the contested terrain of collective experience through overdetermined revisions of history, while trafficking in the tropes that signify them.1
1. https://www.richardsaltoun.com/artists/245-vivienne-koorland/biography/, accessed 17 February 2023.
Provenance
Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Fundraising Auction, 2008.
Private Collection, Cape Town.
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