Bukowskis presents a work by Jim Nutt at Contemporary Art & Design
Jim Nutt
”Tooth”
Jim Nutt was born in Massachusetts, USA, in 1938. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1965 he formed, together with his fellow artists Gladys Nilsson, Art Green, Suellen Rocca, Jim Falconer and Karl Wirsum, the artist group ‘Hairy Who?’. The group was active between 1966 and 1969, and they are considered part of the ‘Chicago Imagists’. A product of its time, in the USA of student revolts, reactions against the Vietnam War, political murders and consumption society, the ‘Hairy Who?’ group became recognised in Chicago and went on to exhibit nationwide. In 1972 Nutt was selected to represent the USA at the Venice Biennale. The following year he participated in the Whitney Biennial and in the exhibition Made in Chicago, which was shown at the Sao Paolo Biennial and later toured South America, Washington and Chicago. These shows turned Nutt into an important, internationally recognised artist.
› Signed Jim Nutt and dated 1990-91 verso. Acrylic on canvas in painted artist's frame 59 x 59 cm. Estimate 1 500 000 – 1 800 000 SEK.
By the early 1980s, his painting took a new turn – he reduced his scale and limited his colour palette and number of figures in each of his compositions. Around 1987 he found the style of painting that he devoted the next thirty-five years to, with paintings that consisted only of a single motif – portraits of imagined women. Nutt has a very small production, only painting one portrait a year. The portraits reference renaissance painting, and Nutt’s work is distinctive of his figures' very particular noses and exaggerated hairstyles. The piece in the auction, "Tooth", from 1990-91, is a typical Nutt portrait with the hair and the characteristic nose, which in its style alludes to both cubism and renaissance portraiture.
To be sold at Contemporary Art & Design
Viewing October 21st – 25th, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm
Auction Live October 26th, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm
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