Artist Philip Taaffe
Title Untitled - Red and Blue Flowers
Media watercolour monoprint on paper
Dated
1995
Size 13 x 10 in. / 33 x 25.4 cm.
Frame Size 21.5 x 18 x 1 in.
Sold $1,600
Estimate $800 - $1,000
Notes
signed and dated lower right; bears title on label verso; framed
Provenance
Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Philip Taaffe ~ [b.1955] American
Taaffe studied at the Cooper Union, NYC, receiving his BFA in 1977 and had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1982. The aesthetic influence of his travel throughout the Middle East, India, South America, and Morocco is evident in his works that are carried in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Reina Sofia, Madrid. In 2008 the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany organized a retrospective survey, The Life of Forms in Art: Paintings 1980-2008 with a publication by Hatje Cantz, which is one of many publications about the artist.
For full details on publications and a chronological survey of works see the artist's website at Philip Taaffe; represented by Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York; included on the Getty Union List of Artist Names Online, by the Getty Research Trust website at Getty Union List