
I Tumbled Out Of Paradise, 1967 (from the series Without You I Am Nothing)
A lush, dreamlike composition rendered in oil on linen, this work evokes the aesthetic sensibility of the late 1960s through McDermott and McGough's signature practice of inhabiting and reimagining the past. The duo's meticulous period-specific technique conjures a sense of longing and displacement, as though paradise is both vividly remembered and irretrievably lost. Part of their series *Without You I Am Nothing*, the painting speaks to themes of romantic dependency and emotional exile with a nostalgic yet melancholic tenderness.
- Medium
- oil on linen
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
November 12, 2013
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