PETER BOOTH (b. 1940)
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PETER BOOTH (b. 1940)

Man

Details
PETER BOOTH (b. 1940)
Man
signed, dated and inscribed 'Booth 1985 MAN' (on the reverse); dated and titled 'Man 1985' on gallery label (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
136.8 x 167.8 cm
Provenance
CDS Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1986
Literature
G Henry, "Peter Booth at CDS", Art in America, May 1986, ref. p. 162
Exhibited
New York, CDS Gallery, Peter Booth, 6 January - 2 February 1986
Special notice
A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium in all lots in this sale

Lot Essay

When exhibited in New York in 1986, a contemporary review of this work noted that: "Booth's treatment of the human animal says a great deal about mankind's dubious dual nature. In Man, he appears as a kind of sloth with a head on either side of a tubular body supported by two thick, three-toed legs You can take man out of nature, he seems to be saying, but you can't take nature out of man it's an awesome vision he gives us, about both our origins and our future.
Booth's skills are up to every bit of the reverse anthropomorphizing he sets out to do." (G Henry op cit, p. 162)

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