Sale: 529 / Post War / Contemporary Art, June 10. 2022 in Munich Lot 229

 

229
James Brown
Stabat Mater (brown) XXV, 1988/89.
Mixed media. Dispersion paint on lead
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200
Sold:
€ 17,500 / $ 18,900

(incl. surcharge)
Stabat Mater (brown) XXV. 1988-1989.
Mixed media. Dispersion paint on lead.
Signed, dated and inscribed "Paris" on the reverse. 240 x 180 x 3.5 cm (94.4 x 70.8 x 1.3 in).
[AR].
• From the group of the religious "Stabat-Mater“ works.
• The artist translates a medieval poem into his dark abstract pictorial language.
• The poems begins with the words "Stabat Mater dolorosa…“ (The sorrowful mother was standing ..) and addresses Mary's sorrow at the cross of Jesus.
• In the 1980s he showed works alongside artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring at the important New York galleries Leo Castelli and Shafrazi Art Gallery before he emigrated to Mexice with his family in the 1990s.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com)
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With the signed photo certificate from the artist, New York City 1991.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.




229
James Brown
Stabat Mater (brown) XXV, 1988/89.
Mixed media. Dispersion paint on lead
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200
Sold:
€ 17,500 / $ 18,900

(incl. surcharge)