Kehinde Wiley, Rumors of War, Deitch Projects, Oversized Card, Photo by Ain Cocke, 2005

$125

“Deitch Projects presented Rumors of War, a painting installation by Kehinde Wiley inspired by the history of equestrian portraiture. The installation featured four larger-than-life canvases, each updating a specific Old Master painting with a contemporary sitter, framed in custom-designed ornate, gilded frames. Soaring to heights of over nine feet, the paintings’ exaggeration of scale and high-keyed cinematic color highlighted Wiley’s interest in the aestheticization of power and masculinity.”

Size: 10 x 12 inches

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In the course of fourteen years in New York’s Soho arts’ district, Deitch Projects completely reconfigured people’s expectations about art. Its founder Jeffrey Deitch was already a well-known art advisor, curator and critic when in 1996 he decided to open his own gallery, where he remained committed to the populist…