MARCEL DZAMA "SCARED WOLFMAN" WATERCOLOR, 1998
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, Marcel Dzama is one of the most internationally successful Canadian artists.
Born in Winnipeg in 1974, Dzama had an international reputation by the time he was 30.
In the 1990's, as one of the founding members of the Royal Art Lodge, Dzama contributed to the renaissance of figurative art and simultaneously put Winnipeg on the map as a center for Canadian creativity.
Dzama's works are instantly recognizable for their subject and style. He often takes banal scenes or characters and injects them with menacing, eerie or twisted details that can border on the absurd.
This watercolor is signature Dzama. It features a human/animal hybrid, a character in a mask, and two characters interacting in an ambiguous context. In this image a masked human cowers at a wolfman baring his teeth and claws. Despite the undercurrent of threat and fear, there's an absurd playfulness and imagination to Dzama's works. Only these scenarios and characters could exist Dzama's world.
Dzama's work can be found in a host of prestigious public and private collections including Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the MoMA, Le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. He is particularly favored by celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey and Steve Martin.
Questions about this piece? Contact us or call +1.416.704.1720
Ink and mixed-media on paper
Signed by the artist
Excellent condition.
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MARCEL DZAMA "SCARED WOLFMAN" WATERCOLOR, 1998
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, Marcel Dzama is one of the most internationally successful Canadian artists.
Born in Winnipeg in 1974, Dzama had an international reputation by the time he was 30.
In the 1990's, as one of the founding members of the Royal Art Lodge, Dzama contributed to the renaissance of figurative art and simultaneously put Winnipeg on the map as a center for Canadian creativity.
Dzama's works are instantly recognizable for their subject and style. He often takes banal scenes or characters and injects them with menacing, eerie or twisted details that can border on the absurd.
This watercolor is signature Dzama. It features a human/animal hybrid, a character in a mask, and two characters interacting in an ambiguous context. In this image a masked human cowers at a wolfman baring his teeth and claws. Despite the undercurrent of threat and fear, there's an absurd playfulness and imagination to Dzama's works. Only these scenarios and characters could exist Dzama's world.
Dzama's work can be found in a host of prestigious public and private collections including Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the MoMA, Le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. He is particularly favored by celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey and Steve Martin.
Questions about this piece? Contact us or call +1.416.704.1720
Ink and mixed-media on paper
Signed by the artist
Excellent condition.
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With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, Marcel Dzama is one of the most internationally successful Canadian artists.
Born in Winnipeg in 1974, Dzama had an international reputation by the time he was 30.
In the 1990's, as one of the founding members of the Royal Art Lodge, Dzama contributed to the renaissance of figurative art and simultaneously put Winnipeg on the map as a center for Canadian creativity.
Dzama's works are instantly recognizable for their subject and style. He often takes banal scenes or characters and injects them with menacing, eerie or twisted details that can border on the absurd.
This watercolor is signature Dzama. It features a human/animal hybrid, a character in a mask, and two characters interacting in an ambiguous context. In this image a masked human cowers at a wolfman baring his teeth and claws. Despite the undercurrent of threat and fear, there's an absurd playfulness and imagination to Dzama's works. Only these scenarios and characters could exist Dzama's world.
Dzama's work can be found in a host of prestigious public and private collections including Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the MoMA, Le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. He is particularly favored by celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey and Steve Martin.
Questions about this piece? Contact us or call +1.416.704.1720
Ink and mixed-media on paper
Signed by the artist
Excellent condition.
