Allen Jones *
(born in Southampton in 1937)
Maid to Order I, 1971, signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse, oil on canvas, 182 x 213 cm, framed
Provenance:
Varenne Collection, Geneva
Sale, Finarte, Milan, 11 December 1973, lot 67 (photocopy of the sale available)
Galleria Gironda, Milan (certificate available)
Private Collection
Giorgio Borgato Collection
European Private Collection
... The bodies (...) break up, are reduced to fragments, to paroxysmal details, which refer to the obsessions of the mind around the body, rather than to the whole body.
And even when they appear as a whole, they are bodies separated from reality, bodies born from the collective imagination, bodies born on (magazine) paper that return to paper (or canvas) ...
Walter Guadagnini
“Fetishism and the transgressive world produced images that I liked because they were dangerous.
They were about personal obsessions. They stood outside the accepted canons of artistic expression and they suggested new ways of depicting the figure that weren't dressed up for public consumption”.
M. Hudson, Allen Jones: The Thing about eroticism is that it forces a response. The Daily Telegraph, 7 November 2014
Specialist: Alessandro Rizzi
Alessandro Rizzi
+39-02-303 52 41
alessandro.rizzi@dorotheum.it
23.05.2024 - 18:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 100,000.- to EUR 150,000.-
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Allen Jones *
(born in Southampton in 1937)
Maid to Order I, 1971, signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse, oil on canvas, 182 x 213 cm, framed
Provenance:
Varenne Collection, Geneva
Sale, Finarte, Milan, 11 December 1973, lot 67 (photocopy of the sale available)
Galleria Gironda, Milan (certificate available)
Private Collection
Giorgio Borgato Collection
European Private Collection
... The bodies (...) break up, are reduced to fragments, to paroxysmal details, which refer to the obsessions of the mind around the body, rather than to the whole body.
And even when they appear as a whole, they are bodies separated from reality, bodies born from the collective imagination, bodies born on (magazine) paper that return to paper (or canvas) ...
Walter Guadagnini
“Fetishism and the transgressive world produced images that I liked because they were dangerous.
They were about personal obsessions. They stood outside the accepted canons of artistic expression and they suggested new ways of depicting the figure that weren't dressed up for public consumption”.
M. Hudson, Allen Jones: The Thing about eroticism is that it forces a response. The Daily Telegraph, 7 November 2014
Specialist: Alessandro Rizzi
Alessandro Rizzi
+39-02-303 52 41
alessandro.rizzi@dorotheum.it
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| Auction: | Contemporary Art I |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction with Live Bidding |
| Date: | 23.05.2024 - 18:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 11.05. - 23.05.2024 |
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Estimate:
EUR 40,000.- to EUR 60,000.-