Live Auction 15970Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Christopher Wool (b. 1955)
Lot 857

Christopher Wool (b. 1955)

Untitled

Closed18 May 2018

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USD 432,500

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Christopher Wool (b. 1955)
Untitled
signed and dated ‘WOOL 1988’ (on the reverse)
enamel on paper
66 ¼ x 36 ¼ in. (168.3 x 92.1 cm.)
Executed in 1988.

Luhring Augustine, New York
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Petzel Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001

Specialist note

“For me, Wool is a very pure version of something dissonant and poignant. His all-or-nothing, caustic-cerebral, ambivalent-belligerent gambit is riveting and even a little thrilling. It's what makes him one of the more optically alive painters out there" (Jerry Saltz, quoted in, "Hard Attack", The Village Voice, December 8 - 14, 2004, p. 78).