Live Auction 1690221st Century Art Day Sale
SANYA KANTAROVSKY (B. 1982)
Lot 111

SANYA KANTAROVSKY (B. 1982)

Homo Duplex I

Closed2 December 2021

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HKD 2,250,000

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SANYA KANTAROVSKY (B. 1982)
Homo Duplex I
signed, titled and dated 'Sanya Kantarovsky HOMO DUPLEX I 2013' (on the overlap)
watercolour, gesso, bleach, ink on linen
120 x 89.5 cm. (47 1⁄4 x 35 1⁄4 in.)
Painted in 2013

Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Private Collection, USA

Specialist note

“Homo Duplex I is referencing French sociologist Émile Durkheim’s theory that humans are divided between their instinctual desires and their socialized personalities, and Kantarovsky’s protagonist seems to embody this dichotomy.” -Jeanne Gerrity