Galerie Eva Presenhuber and Sprüth Magers are delighted to announce a joint presentation of works by Karen Kilimnik at Frieze New York. Spanning works on canvas and pastel drawings over 35 years, this showcase marks Karen Kilimnik’s exclusive representation by Galerie Eva Presenhuber and Sprüth Magers.
Works by Karen Kilimnik draw viewers into a world of grandeur, humor, and fantasy. The presentation by Galerie Eva Presenhuber and Sprüth Magers at Frieze New York captures these facets of her longstanding practice. Kilimnik’s small-scale paintings and drawings are suffused with her own imaginative ideas and illustrate the important interplay of scale, format, and genre that runs throughout her work. Scenes of pastoral landscapes, elven forests, castle exteriors, figures, and horses give the viewer a direct encounter with the unguarded verve of Kilimnik’s wit and her interest in history, always balanced by her assured sense of color and form. These painterly surfaces and atmospheric effects transport us to other eras and places, in which the imaginative intrudes into history, and the present merges with the past.
THE JUNGLE PLANET IN WINTER
2016
Water soluble oil color on canvas
40.5 x 51 cm / 16 x 20 inches
KILIM43257
THE ELVEN QUEEN - ESMERALDA (PART OF BEWITCHED FAMILY)
1986
Pastel on paper
Sheet 61 x 45.5 cm / 24 x 18 inches
Frame 63.5 x 79 x 3 cm / 25 x 31 1/8 x 1 1/8 inches
KILIM48349
SHADOW
2013
Water soluble oil color on canvas
51.5 x 61 cm / 20 1/4 x 24 inches
KILIM49347
THE FOREST OF ELVES
2013
Water soluble oil color on canvas
51 x 61 cm / 20 x 24 inches
KILIM39362
THE IMAGINED FOLLY LIBRARY
2013
Water soluble oil color on canvas
40.5 x 51 cm / 16 x 20 inches
KILIM39315
THE ORGANIC VERY PRETTY FARM IN ENGLAND
2010
Oil on canvas
20.5 x 26 cm / 8 x 10 1/8 inches
KILIM48341
THE BLUEBIRD FOREST
2017
Water soluble oil color on canvas
20.5 x 30.5 cm / 8 x 12 inches
KILIM43308
TURF
1986
Crayon on paper
Frame 83 x 98 x 4 cm / 32 5/8 x 38 5/8 x 1 5/8 inches
Sheet 58.5 x 73.5 cm / 23 x 28 7/8 inches
KILIM18109
THE FAIRIE QUEENS SHEEP IN THE WOODS
2012
Water soluble oil color on canvas
76 x 61 x 2 cm / 30 x 24 x 3/4 inches
KILIM37763
TINY LEAPING FOR JOY
2013
Water soluble oil color on canvas
51.5 x 61.5 cm / 20 1/4 x 24 1/8 inches
KILIM48345
MY SISTER AND ME - BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE
1986
Pastel on paper
Sheet 65 x 49.5 cm / 25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Frame 87.5 x 73 x 5.5 cm / 34 1/2 x 28 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches
KILIM48348
LEONARDO DA VINCI’S LIVING ROOM, AMBOISE
2014
Water soluble oil color on canvas
36 x 45.5 cm / 14 1/4 x 18 inches
KILIM38346
THE ANNUNCIATION ASSUMPTION, BY LEONARDO DA VINCI (CHEEKS LIKE THE GAINSBOROUGH GIRL WITH MILK JUG + PIG)
1988
Pastel on paper
Sheet 89 x 58.5 cm / 35 x 23 inches
Frame 111 x 80.5 x 3.5 cm / 43 3/4 x 31 3/4 x 1 3/8 inches
KILIM48344
VIEW OF PARK WITH DRAPERY, TASSEL + MARBLE COLUMN MAYBE DOBSON
1982
Pastel on paper
Sheet 56 x 42.5 cm / 22 x 16 3/4 inches
Frame 73 x 59.5 x 2.5 cm / 28 3/4 x 23 1/2 x 1 inches
KILIM48342
THANK YOU, THIS TABLE IS JUST RIGHT, WE LIKE THE CHAIR TOO BUT WHERE’S OUR AFTERNOON TEA?! THE EGERTON HOUSE HOTEL LOBBY IN PERSIA
2017
Print on canvas, stickers
28 x 35.5 x 4 cm / 11 x 14 x 1 5/8 inches
KILIM43367
THE WHITE HORSE AND CASTLE
1984
Pastel on paper
Sheet 28 x 21.5 cm / 11 x 8 1/2 inches
Frame 39 x 45 x 3 cm / 15 3/8 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/8 inches
KILIM48343
