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Cecily Brown (b. 1969, London) is one of the most celebrated artists working in painting today. Brown draws from the compositional structure, historical motifs, and virtuosic brushwork of master painters across a diverse range of genres.
Jun 9, 2020 · Cecily Brown. Figures in a Landscape 1, 2001. The FLAG Art Foundation. Brown’s market most recently made news last month, when Gagosian sold her 2001 painting Figures in a Landscape I for $5.5 million through an online viewing room—marking the second-highest price ever paid publicly for Brown’s work.
Cecily Brown’s painting has all the fun of a screwball comedy. Delightfully innocent and sophisticated at the same time, a plot laid out in abstract: mistaken identity, sexual innuendo and glamorous design in 1950s red. Teenage Wildlife. Cecily Brown. Cecily Brown’s young lovers melt into the foliage, fused into the landscape in the heat of ...
Mar 31, 2023 · One could say Cecily Brown is drunk on art history. Throughout her 25-year career, the virtuosic British artist has engaged with seemingly every aspect of the Western canon—Renaissance artists ...
Mar 20, 2023 · 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 depictions of human vanity or life’s brevity—that have propelled her dynamic and impactful practice ...
Cecily Brown (b. 1969, London, England) received her BA in fine arts from the Slade School of Art at the University College of London. She has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1990s. Brown has had numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ...
Sep 20, 2018 · Sept. 20, 2018. When the Metropolitan Opera opens its season on Monday evening, well-heeled patrons ascending the building’s sweeping dual staircase may recognize bits of themselves and their ...
