DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)
Lot 124

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)

Dad's Ship

Closed14 December 2023

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USD 75,600

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DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)
Dad's Ship
signed, inscribed and dated 'WOJNAROWICZ 84 NYC' (on the reverse)
acrylic and enamel on four joined Masonite panels
96 x 96 in. (243.8 x 243.8 cm.)
Executed in 1984.

Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York, 1985
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"As I break through fears, or balance on the walls of fear, either by speaking or moving, it’s an incredible landscape there. Suddenly, I’m loosening all the laws that I constructed for myself, all the rules. I’m not through with them or I haven’t passed yet, but that’s what happens when you confront death, all of the things that you construct for your safety become useless, so you start bounding against them. What gets revealed out of that is something I only wish I had twenty years ago." — David Wojnarowicz