Brad Phillips (1973) - Against Courbet, Flipped

Against Courbet, Flipped

watercolour
26.7 cms x 20.3 cms (10.5 ins x 8 ins)
Signed, titled and dated 2013 in the lower margin
made in 2013
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "Contemporary Canadian Art Auction (Online Auction)" held on Wed, Sep 26, 2018.
Lot 31292
Realised: CAD $1,770

Lot description - from the online catalogue*

Provenance:
Private Collection

Exhibitions:
"Sex, Sex and Death", Louis B. James Gallery, New York, New York, October 27 - December 7, 2013

Literature:
"No More Taboos: Brad Phillips Paints Against the Puritans," interview with "Blouin ArtInfo", November 30, 2015 [online]
Notes:
Brad Phillips has held solo exhibitions at Division Gallery, Toronto; Fierman Gallery, New York; Wallspace Gallery, New York; Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver and Toronto; Residence Gallery, London, UK; Groeflin Maag Galerie, Zurich; Galerie ZK, Berlin; LaMontagne Gallery, Boston; and at the Liste 07 Young Art Fair, Basel. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and in Guy Maddin's "The Keyhole Project" at the Beursschouwburg in Belgium. His work has been shown at Canadian and international art fairs and he was a finalist, representing Western Canada, in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2004. Phillips' works are included in the art collections of the Glenbow Museum, the Capital Group Companies, the Royal Bank of Canada, Hauser & Wirth Collection, and the Toronto philanthropist W. Bruce C. Bailey. In 2017 Phillips was commissioned to create a large-scale painting for the Willis Tower in Chicago (formerly the Sears Tower).
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
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Against Courbet, Flipped by artist Brad Phillips