Villa
A spare and unsettling rendering of a domestic exterior, executed in Tuymans's characteristically muted palette of pale washes and restrained graphite lines. The building appears drained of warmth and habitation, its architectural forms reduced to ghostly, ambiguous surfaces that hover between the familiar and the deeply foreboding. True to Tuymans's broader practice, the image implicates the viewer in a quiet but persistent sense of historical unease.
- Medium
- graphite, watercolour on paper
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Day Sale
July 3, 2014
Artists in conversation
Peter Doig
Scottish · b. 1959
Doig renders architectural and landscape subjects with a similarly haunted, psychologically charged atmosphere, using muted washes and restrained mark making to suggest unease within familiar domestic or built environments.
Marlene Dumas
South African · b. 1953
Dumas works extensively in ink and watercolor on paper with a deliberately spare and unsettling aesthetic, draining her subjects of warmth to generate the same quiet but persistent sense of psychological and historical foreboding found in this piece.
Neo Rauch
German · b. 1960
Rauch builds architectural and figurative scenes in bleached, ghostly palettes that evoke a deeply ambiguous historical unease, sharing with this work a quality of familiar environments rendered strange and drained of habitation.
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