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Gary Hume — Baby Snowman (white)
Gary Hume

Baby Snowman (white)

Gary Hume's *Baby Snowman (white)* presents a strikingly simple yet evocative figure rendered in the artist's signature gloss enamel, its highly reflective surface lending the work an almost unsettling industrial sheen. The cast resin form distills the familiar childhood symbol of a snowman into its most elemental shapes, stripping away sentimentality while amplifying its graphic presence. Hume's restrained use of white transforms the piece into a meditation on purity, absence, and the uncanny tension between innocence and artificiality.

Medium
gloss enamel and cast resin

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

May 10, 2016

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Gary Hume, Baby Snowman (white)

Gary Hume's *Baby Snowman (white)* presents a strikingly simple yet evocative figure rendered in the artist's signature gloss enamel, its highly reflective surface lending the work an almost unsettling industrial sheen. The cast resin form distills the familiar childhood symbol of a snowman into its most elemental shapes, stripping away sentimentality while amplifying its graphic presence. Hume's restrained use of white transforms the piece into a meditation on purity, absence, and the uncanny tension between innocence and artificiality.

Medium
gloss enamel and cast resin
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

White Monochrome, Resin, Male Artist, Mixed Media, Childhood Theme, British Artist, Contemporary Artist, Gloss Enamel, Pop Art, Resin Sculpture, Figurative Art, White, White Palette, Young British Artists, Playful Mood, Figurative, Minimalism

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