Lot 58: Attila Richard Lukacs 1962 - Canadian oil on

Attila Richard Lukacs 1962 - Canadian oil on canvas Fuck 106 x 75 inches 269.2 x 190.5 centimeters initialed and dated 1992 and on verso signed, dated and inscribed ""Berlin"" Provenance:Private Collection, Ontario Attila Lukacs emerged from a creative ferment during the mid-1980s at Vancouver's Emily Carr College of Art, and was an immediate sensation. After living and working for ten years in Germany and exhibiting internationally, he moved to New York, where he painted this uncompromising work. Like the majority of Lukacs's most powerful images, breathtaking in their originality and impact, this work exhibits a life lived on the edge. In many of his monumental paintings, Lukacs employs elaborate set pieces and sumptuously painted surfaces to draw us into his world, a world populated by groups of male skinheads or men in uniform. In these works, his depiction of the male figure, whether costumed or nude, deals with issues of power and control. Lukacs is well known for his themes of social deviance, sexual agression and seduction. The subject of Fuck seems to suggest a personal statement; bracketed by two sections of brilliantly coloured and emotionally charged space we find a central figure, engulfed by an abstract riot, alone and vulnerable.