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Matthew Ritchie

British, born 1964

Morning War, 2008

oil and marker on linen, vinyl

support: 96 x 142 7/8 inches (243.84 x 362.9025 cm); framed: 98 1/2 x 145 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (250.19 x 369.57 x 6.99 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Albert H. Tracy and Charlotte A. Watson Funds, by exchange, 2010

2010:14a-b

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Provenance

the artist;
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York;
sold to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, June 29, 2010

Class

Paintings

Work Type

Oil painting

Painting (visual work)

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Employing a diverse range of media—painting, sculpture, video, drawing, performance, and installation—Matthew Ritchie explores the inner and outer reaches of the universe, the cosmos, and human consciousness. His poetic works weave real and imagined narratives, often informed by collaborations with experts in the fields of science, religion, architecture, history, and myth, into fantastic worlds of infinite possibility. The combustive, apocalyptic scene of Morning War has the potential to explode beyond the picture’s frame when the artist creates a wall drawing on site.

Label from DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012, August 21, 2012–January 6, 2013