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Cecily Brown is a contemporary British painter. View Cecily Brown’s 475 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, prints and multiples, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist.
Cecily Brown New Paintings March 31–May 27, 2006. Britannia Street, London. Cecily Brown January 22–February 26, 2005. 555 West 24th Street, New York ...
Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. [1] Her style displays the influence of a variety of contemporary painters, from Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon [2] and Joan Mitchell, to Old Masters like Rubens, Poussin and Goya. [3] [4] Brown lives and works in New York. [5] [6]
Cecily Brown, the daughter of British novelist, Shena Mackay, and influential art critic and curator, David Sylvester, grew up in the idyllic countryside of Surrey. As the child of somewhat bohemian parents, she grew up immersed in the arts. Sylvester introduced her to the painter, Francis Bacon, when Brown was still young and the influence of ...
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“Cecily Brown’s dynamic and provocative paintings have transfixed viewers for 25 years,” said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen Director of The Met. “Through the use of sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of Western art history’s age-old themes, Brown engages with both contemporary culture and time ...
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Oct 6, 2020 · For all of its faults, Brown retains an indelible fondness for the fantasy of England that shines through. Until now, she’s travelled back home to visit her “enormous” family at least twice a year, and has become ravenous in her consumption of imported British culture. Cecily Brown. Untitled, 2018. Two Palms.
The first full-fledged museum survey of Brown’s work in New York since she made the city her home, Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid assembles a select group of some fifty paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes from across her career to explore the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, mirroring, and vanitas—symbolic ...
