Title:
Malcolm study (Orange background)
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Period: 00's
Medium: Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.), Mixed Media, Oil wash on paper
Year: 2009
Size: height - 33 in, width - 25 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, "Kehinde Wiley", and dated "09", in pencil lower right
Estimate: from $25,000 to $30,000
Seller's Description:
This is a signature work by Kehinde Wiley. In this piece, he marries the strong and proud portrait of a young Black man against the floral background, focusing on the yin/yang, anima/animus of the sitter.
Artist's Statement: Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley’s (b. 1977) portraits of African American men collate modern culture with the influence of Old Masters. Incorporating a range of vernaculars culled from art historical references, Wiley’s work melds a fluid concept of modern culture, ranging from French Rococo to today’s urban landscape. By collapsing history and style into a unique contemporary vision, Wiley interrogates the notion of master painter, “making it at once critical and complicit.” Vividly colorful and often adorned with ornate gilded frames, Wiley’s large-scale figurative paintings, which are illuminated with a barrage of baroque or rococo decorative patterns, posit young black men, fashioned in urban attire, within the field of power reminiscent of Renaissance artists such as Tiepolo and Titian.
"Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture," National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
After graduating from Yale’s MFA program in 2001, Wiley became an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2002, he was awarded the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. Wiley’s work has been featured in exhibitions in Belgium, Italy, Los Angeles, Chicago and Ohio, and his work is represented in the collections of several museums, including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Brooklyn Museum; Denver Art Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
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