Became an Airplane
A hauntingly whimsical scene rendered in Dzama's signature flat, muted palette, where enigmatic figures seem to blur the boundary between human and machine in a dreamlike tableau. The oil on board medium lends a dense, tactile quality to the work, grounding its surreal imagery in a sense of quiet, folkloric unease. True to Dzama's narrative style, the composition evokes a strange mythology of transformation, suggesting both flight and surrender.
- Medium
- oil on board
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
September 16, 2014
Collectors with works by Marcel Dzama
Artists in conversation
Henry Darger
American · b. 1892
Darger created densely narrative, flat figurative compositions steeped in folkloric unease and dreamlike mythology, sharing Dzama's quality of whimsical yet unsettling storytelling through enigmatic characters in strange transformative scenarios.
Neo Rauch
German · b. 1960
Rauch's figurative oil paintings blend surreal narrative imagery with a muted, theatrical palette and scenes of human figures caught in mysterious, mythological transformations that closely mirror the quiet folkloric unease of this specific work.
Michael Sowa
German · b. 1945
Sowa creates whimsical, dreamlike figurative works with a muted palette where humans and objects blur boundaries in playful yet melancholic narrative tableaux, echoing the same quiet surreal mood and imaginative transformation found in this piece.
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