Kehinde Wiley
Click to EnlargeLot number: 29
Details: After Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s ‘La Roi A La Chasse’
Live Auction
2009
Archival inkjet print on Hannimule fine art paper
Signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse
Edition 2 of 6
30 x 24.5 in (76.2 x 62.2 cm)
$5,000
Provenance: Donated by the artist
Artist biography:
Born: 1977, California
Kehinde Wiley received his MFA from Yale Univeristy; shortly thereafter, he became Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Wiley has situated himself in the tradition of portrait painting. As a descendent in a long line or portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres and others, the uses the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban black and brown men.
Wiley’s work has been the subject of exhibitions worldwide and is included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Walker Art Center, the High Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Kehinde Wiley is represented by Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, by Rhona Hoffman in Chicago and by Roberts and Tilton in Los Angeles.