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Here, a number of naked figures seem to stretch, dance, and otherwise occupy the space on and around a brown and black trapezoidal platform; a lavender-toned plane extends upwards towards the picture plane, encompassing the orange, sunrise-like globe. Christina Quarles is renowned for spectacular paintings such as this one that explore the artist’s interest in the ways in which the body—particularly the feminine, queer, or interracial figure—might be represented as both bounded and boundless. As exemplified by this work, Quarles’s paintings display arrays of contorted and choreographed figures occupying dreamlike environments. These strange landscapes and architectures speak to a history of modernist painting while entangled and attenuated limbs of their protagonists extend to the edges of the canvas, serving to frame and expand the indeterminate surroundings.
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In 24 Days Tha Sun'll Set at 7pm
Christina Quarles (American, born in 1985)
2022
Medium/Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
Height x length: 195.6 × 243.8 × 5.1 cm (77 × 96 × 2 in.)
Credit Line
Robert L. Beal, Enid L. Beal and Bruce A. Beal Acquisition Fund and funds donated by Allison Berg and Stuart and Gina Peterson
Accession Number2023.963
ClassificationsPaintings
Here, a number of naked figures seem to stretch, dance, and otherwise occupy the space on and around a brown and black trapezoidal platform; a lavender-toned plane extends upwards towards the picture plane, encompassing the orange, sunrise-like globe. Christina Quarles is renowned for spectacular paintings such as this one that explore the artist’s interest in the ways in which the body—particularly the feminine, queer, or interracial figure—might be represented as both bounded and boundless. As exemplified by this work, Quarles’s paintings display arrays of contorted and choreographed figures occupying dreamlike environments. These strange landscapes and architectures speak to a history of modernist painting while entangled and attenuated limbs of their protagonists extend to the edges of the canvas, serving to frame and expand the indeterminate surroundings.
Provenance2022, consigned by the artist to Hauser & Wirth, New York; 2023, sold by Hauser & Wirth to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)