Richard Phillips Study for Tongue 1997 Oil on linen. 28 1/8 x 26 in. (71.4 x 66 cm). Signed, titled and dated "TOUNGE 97 Richard Phillips" on the reverse.
Provenance Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York Literature E. Schirmer, Mosel Production, Richard Phillips Kunsthalle Zurich, 2000, p.21 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay “Best known for his discomfortingly frontal close-ups of women who look like fashion models, Phillips adopted a photographic approach to painting at the same time that fashion magazines began to incorporate the impressionistic, painterly style (and services) of photographers such as Jack Pierson and Wolfgang Tillmans in their fashion spreads…Phillip’s work performs an almost classical function in this sense, memorializing the unattainable standards of beauty ushered in by this new era in fashion.” V. Breuvart, Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, 2002, London, p. 248 Read More
Richard Phillips Study for Tongue 1997 Oil on linen. 28 1/8 x 26 in. (71.4 x 66 cm). Signed, titled and dated "TOUNGE 97 Richard Phillips" on the reverse.
Provenance Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York Literature E. Schirmer, Mosel Production, Richard Phillips Kunsthalle Zurich, 2000, p.21 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay “Best known for his discomfortingly frontal close-ups of women who look like fashion models, Phillips adopted a photographic approach to painting at the same time that fashion magazines began to incorporate the impressionistic, painterly style (and services) of photographers such as Jack Pierson and Wolfgang Tillmans in their fashion spreads…Phillip’s work performs an almost classical function in this sense, memorializing the unattainable standards of beauty ushered in by this new era in fashion.” V. Breuvart, Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, 2002, London, p. 248 Read More
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