Lot 19

In her elegant paintings, Celia Neubauer harkens back to the precision of historical Chinese painting and the tenderness of calligraphy under the guise of modernist abstraction. At once familiar and strange, these works are symptomatic of Neubauer’s adeptness at fabricating almost-ambiguous spaces, be they celestial landscapes, heavenly bodies, ice shelves or clouds exploding in the sky. Neubauer continues to seduce the voyeur that is within us all while quietly reminding us of our frailty and our diminutive place within the larger universe.