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2020 · Watercolor on paper
16 1/8 × 12 3/16 in. (41 × 31 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Elizabeth Peyton
1965
PaintingContemporary
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None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
34
Works in Collection
100
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13
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100%
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- • Contemporary
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Elizabeth Peyton: mountains in my heart (the death of Sarpedon)
David Zwirner
2026
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Elizabeth Peyton works in painting, drawing, and printmaking, producing intimate portraits of figures drawn from her immediate circle alongside historical personages and icons of contemporary culture. Her subjects consistently include artists, writers, musicians, and actors, rendered with a warmth and directness that collapses the distance between the personal and the iconic. The small scale and luminous handling of her paintings give even well-known faces the quality of private devotion rather than public image.
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David Zwirner
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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