Lot 480: Richard Phillips , Blessed Mother

signed and dated 2000 on the overlap oil on canvas

84 by 72 in. 213.4 by 182.9 cm.

Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Richard Phillips , March - April 2001
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Richard Phillips , September - November 2002, pp. 50-51, illustrated

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2000

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION

"Unbelievably, there is a possibility of an art that, after the nineties, will not preach or illustrate, that will be literally destructive of the coherence and order that define the leveld-out stasis of modern, socially relativistic culture. The hope is to set up favorable conditions in relationship to thes topics, whereby patterns of thought may be ignited through individual, direct, sensual experience of the living and the beauty in painting as Art." - Richard Phillips (Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Kunstverein, Richard Phillips, 2002, p. 102)