Live Auction 22674Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale
ANTONY DONALDSON (B. 1939)
Lot 254

ANTONY DONALDSON (B. 1939)

Mochica

Closed21 March 2024

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GBP 3,780

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ANTONY DONALDSON (B. 1939)
Donaldson, A.
Mochica
signed twice, inscribed and dated 'ANTONY DONALDSON/MOCHICA 2011/Antony Donaldson' (on the reverse)
acrylic on panel, in the artist's painted frame
12 7/8 x 12 7/8 in. (32.9 x 32.9 cm.)
Painted in 2011.

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note

Rendered in characteristic lucid colour, and imbuing a silhouette of an ancient pot with sensuous connotation, the present work is testament to Antony Donaldson’s preoccupation with subverting the cliché. Taking as its subject a Moche civilization lizard pot (100-750 AD), which had been purchased by the artist from a Christie’s sale (having been illustrated on the cover), Mochica belongs to the Tourist Painting series from 2010: in which Donaldson appropriates images he has found and seen into his own graphically assured and alluring pictorial language.