
Hands Dumping; Hands Washing; and Hands Folding
Marilyn Minter's triptych of screenprints captures the intimate, hyper-realistic details of hands engaged in everyday gestures — dumping, washing, and folding — rendered with her signature lustrous, almost photographic intensity. Printed in rich colors on aluminum panels, the works elevate the mundane and domestic into something sensuous and visually arresting. The reflective metallic surface enhances the tactile quality of the imagery, blurring the boundary between the depicted and the real.
- Medium
- Three screenprints in colors, on aluminum panel mounted to metal strainer (as issued), the full sheets.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection
April 18, 2017
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Richard Estes
American · b. 1932

Estes is renowned for his hyper-realistic paintings that capture glossy, reflective surfaces with near-photographic precision, closely mirroring Minter's lustrous and tactile visual intensity. His obsessive attention to surface detail and the blurring of depicted versus real space directly echoes the qualities seen in this triptych.

Chuck Close
American · b. 1940

Close shared Minter's commitment to photorealistic imagery printed and painted with bold color saturation and an extreme close-up focus on the human body, elevating intimate physical details into monumental, visually arresting works. His large-scale screenprints and use of grid-based techniques parallel Minter's meticulous printmaking approach.

Cindy Sherman
American · b. 1954

Sherman's work similarly foregrounds the female body and domestic or intimate subject matter through a hyper-focused, photographic lens that transforms the everyday into something sensuous and conceptually charged. Her exploration of close-up figuration and the heightened visual language of contemporary femininity aligns closely with the mood and subject matter of this triptych.
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