


Sans titre (Picture Frame, Sitting Room 1938)
2000
Robert Longo's monumental charcoal drawing renders a vintage picture frame and sitting room interior with his signature hyperrealistic precision, transforming an intimate domestic scene from 1938 into a striking study of memory and absence. The richly textured black-and-white composition captures every shadow and detail with cinematic intensity, blurring the boundary between drawing and photography. Longo further complicates questions of representation by enclosing the work within an artist's frame, creating a layered meditation on containment, looking, and the act of framing itself.
- Medium
- charcoal on paper mounted on panel; in an artist's frame
- Dimensions
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Christie's
Notes
LITERATURE H. Foster, Robert Longo Charcoal, Ostfildern, 2012 (une vue in situ illustrée en couleurs p. 33). EXHIBITED New York, Metro Pictures, Robert Longo, The Freud Drawings, janvier-mars 2001. Krefeld, Krefeld Kunstmuseen (novembre-février); Vienne, Albertina (mars-juin), The Freud Drawings, Robert Longo, 2002-2003, p. 46 (illustré en couleurs au catalogue d'exposition p. 47; dimensions erronées). Conditions of sale Brought to you by Elisabetta Vitullo Junior Specialist, Head of Day Sale EVITULLO@CHRISTIES.COM +33 (0)1 40 76 85 68
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