AUCTION - Fall From Grace, 2017, Lucas Murnaghan

AUCTION - FALL FROM GRACE by LUCAS MURNAGHAN

Bid for the final 36" x 36" print of Fall From Grace by Lucas Murnaghan in the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Auction.

Auction ends 1600 ET, 2100 UK, 2200 Europe - 10 May 2026

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37” x 37”  C type print
Edition of 8 - no 8/8
From an edition started by the artist but printed posthumously. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity issued by the Estate of Lucas Murnaghan
Image size on paper 36” x 36” 

Fall From Grace by Lucas Murnaghan, 2017 South Beach, FL

Shot in South Beach in 2017, Fall From Grace captures Jean Arnas suspended mid-movement beneath the surface. There is no staging visible, no artifice. The water is clear, the light falling through from above and scattering across the skin in a way that dissolves the boundary between body and environment.

Arnas's pose sits somewhere between surrender and flight. Limbs arched, face turned toward the diffuse light above, it reads less as a held position than a moment caught in the middle of becoming something else. That ambiguity is what the image holds onto. Lucas worked without SCUBA gear, which compressed the time available and pushed both photographer and subject into a more instinctive kind of collaboration. The stillness in the frame comes from that pressure, not despite it.

What water does to the body was central to everything Lucas made. Not as spectacle, but as a condition that strips away everything performative and leaves something more honest in its place.

Fall From Grace is a chromogenic C-type print produced by Toronto Image Works. It comes with a Certificate of Authenticity issued by the Lucas Murnaghan Water Photography Estate.