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ELLEN GALLAGHER (B. 1965)
Lot 364Property from a New York Charitable Family Trust

ELLEN GALLAGHER (B. 1965)

Love Parade

Fermé10 March 2022

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USD 80,000–120,000

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ELLEN GALLAGHER (B. 1965)
Love Parade
oil on wood
2 x 180 in. (5 x 457.2 cm.)
Executed in 1998.

Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998

Note du spécialiste

"Blackface minstrel is a ghost story. It's about loss; there's a black mask and sublimation...[B]lackface minstrel was the first great American abstraction, even before jazz. It's the literal recording of the African body into American public culture. Disembodied eyes and lips float, hostage, in the electric black of the minstrel stage, distorting the African body into American blackface."
—Ellen Gallagher, "History and Drag: Ellen Gallagher in Conversation with Cheryl Kaplan," DB-Artmag, 2006 (online).