
When Time Ran Out
2016
Cecily Brown's oil on linen painting uses gestural abstraction to explore temporal concepts through dynamic brushwork. The work reflects on time's passage through expressionistic color and form.
- Medium
- oil on linen
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
March 3, 2022
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Joan Mitchell
American · b. 1925

Mitchell's large scale oil paintings share Brown's commitment to gestural abstraction and expressive brushwork, channeling emotional and temporal experience through layered color and dynamic mark making on canvas.

Cy Twombly
American · b. 1928

Twombly's paintings similarly explore the passage of time through loose gestural strokes and expressive color fields, creating works that feel simultaneously spontaneous and deeply contemplative about memory and impermanence.

Amy Sillman
American · b. 1955

Sillman's contemporary oil paintings echo Brown's fusion of gestural abstraction with psychological and temporal themes, using bold expressive brushwork and shifting color relationships to evoke emotional states in flux.
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