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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977)
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977)

No Patience To Speak Of

Closed17 October 2015

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GBP 104,500

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977)
No Patience To Speak Of
signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'No Patience to Speak of LYB 2010' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
71 x 78 ¼in. (180.4 x 200cm.)
Painted in 2010

Corvi-Mora, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010.

Specialist note

‘I always loved figurative painting and I've always wondered what that power was that I kept coming back to and I realized it was less about individuals than about how they had been pictorially constructed. What was it about their eyes? How was that achieved through this painting?’
(L.Y.-Boayke, quoted in J. Higgie, 'A Life in a Day: The Fictitious Portraits of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye', in Frieze, issue 146, April 2012, http:/www.frieze.com/issue/article/a-life-in-a-day/ [accessed 12 September 2015]).