AMY SHERALD (B. 1973)
19.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1508175
Lot 21 | AMY SHERALD (B. 1973)
Estimate value
2000000USD $ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
A Clear Unspoken Granted Magic
signed and dated 'Amy Sherald 2017' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
54 ¼ x 43 in. (138 x 109.2 cm.)
Painted in 2017.
Provenance
Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
Denise and Gary Gardner, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
R. Smith, "Why The Obama Portrait Choices Matter," The New York Times, online, 16 October 2018 (illustrated).
R. Pogrebin, "After a Late Start, An Artist's Big Break: Michelle Obama's Official Portrait," The New York Times, online, 23 October 2017 (illustrated).
S. Cascone, "‘There Is So Much You Go Through Just Trying to Make It’: Amy Sherald on How She Went From Obscurity to a Museum Survey (and the White House)" Artnet News, online, 8 January 2018 (illustrated).
V. Valentine, "2018 David C. Driskell Prize is Going to Artist Amy Sherald," CultureType, online, 8 February 2018 (illustrated).
"What's Behind the Gray Skin Tones and Arresting Eyes in Amy Sherald's Portraits," High Museum of Art, online, 11 April 2018 (illustrated).
R. Byrd, "Amy Sherald on Her “Gentle Presentation of Black Identity” and More," Hyperallergic, online, 24 May 2018 (illustrated).
K. Smith, "Of Figurative Paintings and a First Lady," The Bitter Southerner, online, 21 March 2019 (illustrated).
K. Crowe, "Collector’s Eye: They Built a World-Class Collection of Black Artists’ Work. Who Are They Acquiring Now?," The Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2020 (illustrated).
Amy Sherald. American Sublime, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art and Baltimore Museum of Art, 2024, p. 91 (illustrated).
L. Gaillard, "Kerry James Marshall, Amy Sherald et Ekene Stanley: au-delà de la couleur, une humanité," Culturellement vôtre, online, 16 September 2024 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Monique Meloche LES, Amy Sherald, March 2017.
St Louis, Contemporary Art Museum; Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Atlanta, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Amy Sherald, May 2018-May 2019, n.p. (illustrated).
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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