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Robert Longo — Sans titre (Picture Frame, Sitting Room 1938)
Robert Longo — Sans titre (Picture Frame, Sitting Room 1938)
Robert Longo — Sans titre (Picture Frame, Sitting Room 1938)
Robert Longo

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

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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Art Contemporain

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Robert Longo, 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
246 x 84 cm
Year
2000
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Christie's, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Interior Scene, Male Artist, Charcoal Drawing, Contemporary Artist, Framed Artwork, American Artist, Figurative Art, Works on Paper, Hyperrealism, Somber Mood, Black and White, 20th Century Subject Matter

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery