“Wiley draws attention to Van Dyck’s regal portrait conventions & questions the constructions of authority that now appear as affectation rather than natural elegance & power.”

EVOLUTION OF A PAINTING
  • 1600-1649
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2007
  • Anthony Van Dyck
    Le Roi a la chasse (Charles I at the Hunt)

    oil on canvas

    104¾ by 81½ in. 266 by 207 cm.

    Musée de Louvre, Paris
  • Kehinde Wiley
    Le Roi a la Chasse

    oil on canvas

    96 by 72 in. 243.8 by 183 cm.

    Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
  • Kehinde Wiley
    Le Roi a la Chasse (Study)

    oil on paper

    30 by 23 in. 72.6 by 81.3 cm.

    Private collects ion
  • Kehinde Wiley
    Le Roi A La Chasse II

    oil on canvas

    122 by 119 in. 310 by 302.3 cm.


    Estimate: $150,000 - 200,000
“Figures interrupt tropes of portrait painting, blurring lines between tradition & contemporary modes of representation & the critical portrayal of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view of black & brown young men.”
Kehinde Wiley

"Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic" video series

Kehinde Wiley discussing the use of historic subjects in his work