Nicolas Party: Portrait with a Seahorse Necklace (2021)
Phaidon and Artspace are pleased to announce a limited edition artwork by Swiss-born, New York-based artist Nicolas Party
A limited edition artwork by Swiss-born, New York-based artist Nicolas Party: Portrait with a Seahorse Necklace (2021)
Nicolas Party is known for his colour-saturated paintings of everyday objects, with distinctly personal yet very accessible and recognizable imagery – bright, graphic patterns applied to canvases, ceramics, furniture, floors, ceilings, doorways and walls. He captures the essence of his subjects in surprising ways, heightening their physical and emotional resonance.
Portrait with a Seahorse Necklace is a woodcut of the pastel with the same name Party made in 2018, and reproduced on the front cover of his Phaidon monograph. Originally presented on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the FLAG Art Foundation, Portrait with a Seahorse Necklace emphasises the artist’s predilection for soft pastel, a delicate medium that endured a moment of popularity in the early eighteen-century thanks to artists like Rosalba Carriera.
‘For the Phaidon limited edition, I decided to do a woodcut version of my pastel titled Portrait with a Seahorse Necklace. In this portrait, a figure wears a seahorse necklace. Seahorses are unique: They only have one partner during the course of their life. And the male partner carries the babies.’
Specifications:
Edition of 100 plus 8 artist’s proofs signed and numbered by the artist
Woodcut on HM-5 gampi-shi
Image Size: 8 inches x 9 5/8 inches or 20.3 cm x 24.5 cm
Sheet Size: 9 1/2 inches x 11 1/8 inches or 24.1 cm x 28.3 cm
Nicolas Party (born 1980 in Lausanne, Switzerland) lives and works in New York. Within his works is a 21st-century synthesis of the sorts of impulses and ideas that fueled the Renaissance and late-19th- and early-20th-century figurative painting, the compositional strategies of Rosalba Carriera and Rachel Ruysch, and the visions of such self-taught artists as Louis Eilshemius and Milton Avery.
His work has been exhibited internationally including recent solo exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2021); Le Consortium, Dijon (2021); MASI Lugano (2021); FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2019); M WOODS, Beijing (2018-2019); and Magritte Museum, Brussels (2018).