
Lili with a Pocket Bonnet
2009
Paulina Olowska's 2009 portrait Lili with a Pocket Bonnet is an oil painting depicting a figure wearing distinctive headwear. The work reflects Olowska's interest in clothing, identity, and figuration rendered in a contemporary style.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, New York
September 16, 2025
Lot 126
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Cecily Brown
British · b. 1969

Cecily Brown creates figurative oil paintings with a similarly painterly and expressive handling of surface, where the physicality of the paint itself becomes part of the subject. Her portraits and figure works share a comparable intimacy and contemporary looseness of brushwork.

Marlene Dumas
South African · b. 1953

Marlene Dumas is renowned for intimate, psychologically charged figurative portraits of women rendered with muted tones and expressive mark making that closely mirrors Olowska's approach to female identity and portraiture. Both artists foreground mood and interiority over precise realism.

Chantal Joffe
British · b. 1969

Chantal Joffe paints intimate figurative portraits of women and girls in oil on canvas with a painterly, gestural quality and muted palette that strongly echoes the mood and visual language of this Olowska portrait. Her recurring interest in clothing, adornment, and female subjectivity aligns closely with this specific work.
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