ID 717735
Lot 50 | CECILY BROWN (B. 1969)
Estimate value
£ 3 500 000 – 5 500 000
The Girl Who Had Everything
signed and dated 'Cecily Brown 98' (on the reverse); signed and dated 'Cecily Brown 98' (on the stretcher)
oil on linen
100 1⁄8 x 110in. (254.3 x 279.4cm.)
Painted in 1998
Provenance
Victoria Miro, London.
Saatchi Collection, London (acquired from the above in 1999)
Anon. sale, Phillips New York, 15 November 2007, lot 25.
Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 28 June 2017, lot 15.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
C. Saatchi and P. Ellis (eds.), 100: The work that changed British Art, London 2003, pp. 184 and 215, no. 90 (illustrated in colour, p. 185)
C. Lyin (ed.), After the Revolution Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Munich 2003 (illustrated in colour, p. 20).
M. Kim, One Break, A Thousand Blows!, London 2008, p. 22.
E. Booth-Clibborn (ed.), The History of the Saatchi Gallery, London 2011 (illustrated in colour, p. 582).
L. Jamison 'Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain' in The Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 90, Spring 2014 (illustrated in colour, p. 115).
C. Martin, J. Rosenfeld and F. Prose, Cecily Brown, New York 2020, p. 158 (illustrated in colour, p. 29).
Exhibited
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Cecily Brown: Paintings 1998-2000, 2000, p. 14, no. 1 (illustrated in colour, p. 15).
London, Saatchi Gallery, Damien Hirst, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Daniel Richter, Cecily Brown, 2003.
London, Saatchi Gallery, The Triumph of Painting, Part II, 2005, p. 130 (illustrated in colour, p. 131).
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| Artist: | Cecily Brown (1969) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Artist: | Cecily Brown (1969) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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