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Estimate
£70,000 - £100,000
($124,320 - $177,600)

Lot Description
Jeff Dooley (b. 1946)
Shuttered
Peeling paint on metallic shutter
Pretty big in. x Rather large in. (Slightly less Pretty big cm. x Not as much rather large cm.)
Executed in 2006, this work is number two from an edition of four.

Lot Notes
Jeff Dooley's stage-set manipulation of reality poses interesting and sometimes troubling questions about the nature of our perception of reality and the conventions of picture making. Dooley's Poussin-like composing of 'model' figures acting out a scene in order to illustrate part of a story or a drama taken from real life, brings home the troubling ambiguity inherent in all that we see. When there are no figures present in his work, as in Shuttered of 2006, this ambiguity, though less immediately apparent, is more disquieting.