Simon English (b. 1959)
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Simon English (b. 1959)

Box 1; and Box 4

Details
Simon English (b. 1959)
Box 1; and Box 4
oil on PVC rigid
15 3/8 x 31 1/8 in. (39 x 79 cm.); 7 1/8 x 15 3/8 in. (18 x 39 cm.)
Executed in 1992.
two in the lot (2)
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. VAT rate of 20% is payable on hammer price and buyer's premium

Lot Essay

In English's paintings, naked men confront each other across an imagined divide, or appear to wrestle in confined spaces. English marks out rooms with the minimum armature possible, so we see through walls into clandestine parties or tense locker rooms. The anonymous men, toned and pumped-up, have the intimacy of fraternities, whether sexual or social, and the almost monochromatic canvases seem to shudder with testosterone.

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