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David Shrigley — I Can Sing For You
David Shrigley

I Can Sing For You

"I Can Sing For You" exemplifies David Shrigley's characteristic crude figuration and darkly humorous sensibility, rendered in acrylic on paper with the artist's distinctively raw and expressive gestural marks. Created in 2025 as part of a hand-painted edition of 30 unique works, this piece maintains the immediacy and emotional directness that defines Shrigley's practice, where seemingly simple or childlike drawing becomes a vehicle for complex psychological and social commentary. The work's modest materials and modest scale belie its conceptual weight, as Shrigley continues his investigation into the absurdities of human communication and connection through deliberately unsophisticated yet conceptually sophisticated visual language.

Medium
Acrylic on paper, 2025, initialled and dated in pencil verso, numbered from the hand-painted edition of 30 unique works, published by Shrig Shop, Copenhagen, on Fabriano Artistico wove paper, with full margins, sheet 755 x 550mm (29 3/4 x 21 5/8in) (unframed), Condition, Related Lots, BACK TO AUCTION CATALOGUE, Oleg Kudryashov (1932-2022) Untitled, No. 2388, Estimate: £500 - 700, Tim Rollins (1955-2017) & Kids of Survival By Any Means Necessary, Estimate: £800 - 1,200, Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) N

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Prints & Works on Paper 1500-2026

March 31, 2026

Lot 114

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David Shrigley, I Can Sing For You

"I Can Sing For You" exemplifies David Shrigley's characteristic crude figuration and darkly humorous sensibility, rendered in acrylic on paper with the artist's distinctively raw and expressive gestural marks. Created in 2025 as part of a hand-painted edition of 30 unique works, this piece maintains the immediacy and emotional directness that defines Shrigley's practice, where seemingly simple or childlike drawing becomes a vehicle for complex psychological and social commentary. The work's modest materials and modest scale belie its conceptual weight, as Shrigley continues his investigation into the absurdities of human communication and connection through deliberately unsophisticated yet conceptually sophisticated visual language.

Medium
Acrylic on paper, 2025, initialled and dated in pencil verso, numbered from the hand-painted edition of 30 unique works, published by Shrig Shop, Copenhagen, on Fabriano Artistico wove paper, with full margins, sheet 755 x 550mm (29 3/4 x 21 5/8in) (unframed), Condition, Related Lots, BACK TO AUCTION CATALOGUE, Oleg Kudryashov (1932-2022) Untitled, No. 2388, Estimate: £500 - 700, Tim Rollins (1955-2017) & Kids of Survival By Any Means Necessary, Estimate: £800 - 1,200, Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) N
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Forum Auctions, London, UK

Related themes

Human vulnerability, Crude figurative, Grotesque Aesthetic, British Artist, Outsider Art, 21st Century, Drawing, Ink on Paper, Dark Humor, Contemporary

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