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Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Pin-up)
2014, acrylic on PVC panel, in artist’s frame
Sotheby's, New York
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Kerry James Marshall has spent four decades painting Black figures into the genres of Western art that left them out: the history painting, the portrait, the landscape. Here the genre is the pin-up, the mid-century American glamour picture named for being pinned to walls, which rarely showed Black women. He paints his figures in deep, unmixed black so the subject can’t be overlooked.
Condition: No notable issues
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The fact sheet
- Medium
- acrylic on PVC panel, in artist’s frame
- Dimensions
- 185.4 x 155.6 cm (73 x 61 1/4 in)
- Provenance
- Jack Shainman Gallery; private collection; Christie’s New York, 8 May 2016, lot 33A; present owner.
- Exhibited
- Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet - Museet for samtidskunst, An Appetite for Painting. Samtidsmaleri 2000-2014, September 2014 - January 2015, p. 74, illustrated in color and p. 125 (text)
Quick facts
- Painted in 2014
- Exhibited in Oslo, 2014–2015
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Sotheby's estimate
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$2,500,000–$3,500,000
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