
drawing for "Ballroom Dancing"
2005
A spare, haunting depiction rendered in graphite and ink, Tuymans reduces the subject to ghostly, skeletal lines that hover uneasily on the paper's surface. The work carries his signature atmosphere of psychological unease, stripping the implied elegance of ballroom dancing down to something disquieting and ambiguous. Minimal marks suggest figures or movement while simultaneously draining them of vitality, leaving behind a sense of absence rather than presence.
- Medium
- graphite and ink on paper
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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September 26, 2018
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