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Artist auctions off photo of dad's underwear for $1,300
By Emilia Bruce-Watt, Emilia Bruce-Watt
Published March 24, 2019
"My Dad's Pants" artwork by Dominic Allan. (SWNS)
Eccentric artist Dominic Allan - who goes by the name Dominic of Luton - photographed his dad's underwear drying on a radiator for a work he has titled “My Dad's Pants.”
The bonkers art piece which is printed on a sheet of aluminum has even been displayed in the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London.
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And recently it went under the hammer in an on-line auction with a reserve price of $1,300 (£1,000).
Dominic Allan, from Luton, Bedfordshire, in England, who trained at the Chelsea College of Arts says he “strives to find the beauty in the mundane” of his hometown.
He said, "My Dad was horrified that a photograph of his pants was blown up massively and displayed in public.
"It was met with silence!
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"I was wandering around the house with a digital camera and I was just snapping what I was seeing.
"I was just taking photos of what was in front of me and that happened to be my home and my family."
Artist Dominic Allan - who goes by the name Dominic of Luton - photographed his dad's underwear drying on a radiator for the work. (SWNS)
Dominic snapped the photograph of his dad's pants in 2013 and it was soon bought by the Saatchi Gallery, who has continued to support the artist through his career.
The artist also focuses on his hometown of Luton and explores the town's "identity crisis."
The town was voted number 1 in a nationwide poll of the worst towns in Britain in 2016.
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Dominic added, "I've named it Lutopia - it just came to me one day. Luton has an identity crisis now. It doesn't know what it is.
"Lutopia was just a tongue in cheek name for a mystical bygone era."
The work measures 31 inches by 48 inches.
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