
Beached
2012
Caroline Walker's 2012 oil on paper work 'Beached' explores themes of vulnerability and dislocation through figurative imagery and painterly technique. The work demonstrates the artist's sensitive exploration of human condition and intimate emotion.
- Medium
- oil on paper
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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December 8, 2022
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Luc Tuymans
Belgian · b. 1958

Tuymans creates figurative oil paintings with a similarly muted, melancholic atmosphere that conveys vulnerability and psychological unease through restrained painterly technique and subdued color palettes.

Cecily Brown
British · b. 1969

Brown shares Walker's British figurative tradition and loose expressive oil technique, often placing figures within atmospheric landscapes and seascapes that carry an underlying emotional tension and intimacy.

Jenny Saville
British · b. 1970

Saville is a contemporary British painter who similarly uses oil paint to explore the human figure with emotional intensity and vulnerability, rendering flesh and bodily presence in ways that feel both intimate and exposed.
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