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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977)
Lot 126

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977)

Luminary

Closed12 February 2016

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GBP 86,500

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977)
Luminary
signed with the artist’s initials, titled and dated ‘LYB 2011 Luminary’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
71 x 59in. (180.3 x 150cm.)
Painted in 2011

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

Specialist note

‘I’ve been influenced by historic painters who share a certain devil-may-care mode of working, who were not so concerned with formal perfection or academic rules, but with the physicality of paint, the act of painting, the life that they knew and how they could make it tangible through paint – people like Édouard Manet, Walter Stickert and Francisco Goya’
(L. Yiadom-Boakye, quoted in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Any Number of Preoccupations, exh. cat., The Studio Museum Harlem, New York, 2011, p. 20).