Untitled

Name: Nicola Frimpong (B. 1987)
Brand: Untitled
Price: 400.00 GBP
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Nicola Frimpong (B. 1987)

Untitled

Price Realised GBP 500

Closed: 28 Mar 2019

Price Realised GBP 500

Closed: 28 Mar 2019

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Nicola Frimpong (B. 1987)
Untitled
signed twice, titled, inscribed and dated 'Nicola Agyeman Badu Frimpong Untitled 2013 'Aka' Freeakpong Nicola Frimpong' (on the reverse)
watercolour and graphite on paper
11⅝ x 8¼in. (29.5 x 21cm.)
Executed in 2013

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 2013.

London, Saatchi Gallery, Paper, 2013 (illustrated in colour, p. 62).

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Lot Essay

Working in watercolour and digital art, Nicola Frimpong explores the darker reaches of the human psyche. The taboo themes of race, sexuality, hatred and violence pervade her work. Cultural history is made personal through her unique and intensely felt perspective, which distorts and caricatures societal relationships to playful and provocative effect. offers a typically confounding image. Against a blank page, six male models face us, wearing outlandish couture adorned with incendiary slogans relating to race and slavery. The men appear to be of different ethnicities, and are dressed in a variety of modes: one wears black tie, another jeans and a T-shirt; wilder adornments include blue hair and an eyepatch, while one figure has a single wooden leg and hooks for arms. The signals are perplexing, and the childlike naivety of their depiction jars with the work’s subversive punch. Through Frimpong’s distinctive vision, we are displaced into a futuristic world or imagined realm where the norms of power and representation have been thrown into carnivalesque chaos.
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Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot. You must pay us an extra amount equal to the resale royalty and we will pay the royalty to the appropriate authority. Please see the Conditions of Sale for further information.
This lot will be subject to VAT of 20% on both the hammer price and buyer’s premium. Please see Conditions of Sale for further information.