Christopher Wool (b. 1955)
Lot 159 Property from a Private West Coast Collection

Christopher Wool (b. 1955)

Untitled

Closed7 October 2020

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USD 237,500

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Christopher Wool (b. 1955)
Untitled
signed and dated 'WOOL 1988' (on the reverse)
enamel on paper
56 ¼ x 32 1/8 in. (142.9 x 81.6 cm.)
Painted in 1988.

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989

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.
—J. Saltz, quoted in "Hard Attack", The Village Voice, December 2004, p. 78