Kevin Appel, American b.1967- ‘The Tutor’, 2007; oil and acrylic on canvas laid down on board, signed and dated '2007' on the reverse, 120 x 95.5cm, (unframed) Provenance: Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Sotheby’s, London, 21 November 2017, lot 65 where it was purchased by the present owner. Exhibited: ‘Kevin Appel- Small Paintings’, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, 8 September- 29 September 2007 Note: Kevin Appel’s oeuvre explores environmental, social, and psychological impact of architecture in his varied paintings since the mid-1990s. “The works of Kevin Appel occupy places within and between the practices of painting, architecture, and design…Appel uses the computer to aid in the design of the spaces and reclaims them, as he has said, through the more practical and clearly more labour-intensive process of painting. Yet within a pictorial structure based on a disorienting two-point perspective and a repetition or even replication of forms, the paintings veer from physical reality to virtual reality, at once excluding and enveloping the viewer.” (Janet Bishop, ‘010101: Art in Technological Times’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001) Please refer to department for condition report