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Dexter Dalwood — The Queen's Bedroom
Dexter Dalwood

The Queen's Bedroom

A large-scale oil painting by Dexter Dalwood that reconstructs the intimate interior of the British monarch's private chamber, assembling visual fragments and cultural references into a scene no photographer has ever captured. Dalwood employs his signature method of collaging art historical influences and period details to evoke a space defined more by myth and imagination than by documentary fact. The work explores themes of power, privacy, and the constructed nature of public identity through bold, flattened planes of color and a deliberately artificial sense of space.

Medium
oil on canvas

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

October 16, 2014

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Dexter Dalwood, The Queen's Bedroom

A large-scale oil painting by Dexter Dalwood that reconstructs the intimate interior of the British monarch's private chamber, assembling visual fragments and cultural references into a scene no photographer has ever captured. Dalwood employs his signature method of collaging art historical influences and period details to evoke a space defined more by myth and imagination than by documentary fact. The work explores themes of power, privacy, and the constructed nature of public identity through bold, flattened planes of color and a deliberately artificial sense of space.

Medium
oil on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Bedroom, Mysterious, Surreal, Rich Colors, Interior, Narrative, British, Figurative, Oil on Canvas, Contemporary

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