Philip Taaffe

(American, born 1955)

Philip Taaffe is a contemporary American artist best known for his process-based abstractions. Melding iconography, design, art-historical motifs, and personal experience, he creates densely patterned works. “Taaffe’s paintings are built in complex layers, both technical and historical. The more one knows about his process, the more stupefying are the final results,” the poet Vincent Katz said of his work. “Each painting is an amalgam of different techniques and media—oil paint transferred from cardboard forms, acrylic stains, oil-based prints from linoleum blocks, scraping, scouring, photo-based silkscreen prints, collaged paper elements, and most recently, spooned acrylic swirls, and intricately cut and applied sheets of gold leaf.” Taaffe's practice revolves around the appropriation of works both by well-known artists, including Barnett Newman and Bridget Riley, and designs by anonymous artisans. Born in 1955 in Elizabeth, NJ, he studied at the Cooper Union, receiving his BFA in 1977. The artist’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions worldwide, including at Luhring Augustine in Brooklyn, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, and numerous others. Taaffe currently lives and works between New York, NY and West Cornwall, CT. His works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Reina Sofia in Madrid.

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Philip Taaffe (451 results)
Untitled, 1991

Philip Taaffe

Untitled, 1991

Sale Date: October 1, 2009

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Ohne Titel (Flower), 1993

Philip Taaffe

Ohne Titel (Flower), 1993

Sale Date: June 20, 2009

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Exploded still life, 2000–2001

Philip Taaffe

Exploded still life, 2000–2001

Sale Date: June 26, 2009

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Untitled, 1988

Philip Taaffe

Untitled, 1988

Sale Date: June 17, 2009

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Passage II tetra, 1997–1998

Philip Taaffe

Passage II tetra, 1997–1998

Sale Date: June 17, 2009

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Untitled, 1999

Philip Taaffe

Untitled, 1999

Sale Date: May 16, 2009

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Untitled, 2002

Philip Taaffe

Untitled, 2002

Sale Date: May 16, 2009

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Melting head, 2004

Philip Taaffe

Melting head, 2004

Sale Date: March 10, 2009

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Cazzi blu, 1991

Philip Taaffe

Cazzi blu, 1991

Sale Date: March 11, 2009

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Passage-II-Tetra, 1997–1998

Philip Taaffe

Passage-II-Tetra, 1997–1998

Sale Date: February 6, 2009

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Untitled, 1995

Philip Taaffe

Untitled, 1995

Sale Date: December 11, 2008

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Untitled, 1995

Philip Taaffe

Untitled, 1995

Sale Date: December 11, 2008

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Sans titre (Flower), 1993

Philip Taaffe

Sans titre (Flower), 1993

Sale Date: November 23, 2008

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Long, Deep-Sea Toothy Fish Chauliodus..., 1997

Philip Taaffe

Long, Deep-Sea Toothy Fish Chauliodus..., 1997

Sale Date: November 29, 2008

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Entrance, 2002

Philip Taaffe

Entrance, 2002

Sale Date: November 14, 2008

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Untitled, 1991–1993

Philip Taaffe

Untitled, 1991–1993

Sale Date: November 14, 2008

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Seven incidents, Giollo di Napoli,..., 1991–1992

Philip Taaffe

Seven incidents, Giollo di Napoli,..., 1991–1992

Sale Date: November 13, 2008

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Untitled, 1985

Philip Taaffe

Untitled, 1985

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Strangulation with necktie, 1985

Philip Taaffe

Strangulation with necktie, 1985

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Senza titolo - Drei abstrakte Formen, 1988

Philip Taaffe

Senza titolo - Drei abstrakte Formen, 1988

Sale Date: October 25, 2008

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Double cell from cinema Possillipo, 1991–1993

Philip Taaffe

Double cell from cinema Possillipo, 1991–1993

Sale Date: October 21, 2008

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Excavation transfer, 1990

Philip Taaffe

Excavation transfer, 1990

Sale Date: September 9, 2008

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Transfer/overimpression, 1990

Philip Taaffe

Transfer/overimpression, 1990

Sale Date: September 9, 2008

Auction Closed

King snakes in blue, 2000

Philip Taaffe

King snakes in blue, 2000

Sale Date: September 9, 2008

Auction Closed

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