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Robert Longo
STUDY OF COWBOY RISING
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62,500 EUR
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Robert Longo
N. 1953
STUDY OF COWBOY RISING
signed, titled and dated 2012
charcoal on vellum
51 x 40,5 cm; 20 1/16 x 15 15/16 in.
Executed in 2012.
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charcoal on vellum
51 x 40,5 cm; 20 1/16 x 15 15/16 in.
Executed in 2012.
Provenance
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Acquired from the above by the current owner
Acquired from the above by the current owner
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Fig. 1
Robert Longo in his Manhattan Studio © Erica Gannett
Robert Longo in his Manhattan Studio © Erica Gannett
Robert Longo is unquestionably one of the most talented draughtsmen of our times. His works, on the borderline between photography, film and painting, create a sense of hyperrealism that is as troubling as it is enthralling. Internationally recognised since Men in the Cities; a series begun at the end of the 1970s and inspired by the film by the German producer Rainer Fassbinder The American Soldier, Robert Longo’s work has for the past thirty years focused on the architypes of contemporary, violent, urban, veneered and glamorous society.
Depicting bucolic scenes emblematic of American culture or universal landscapes, the artist produces images in which the marvellous rubs shoulders with the terrible, beauty with the destructive forces of both man and nature.
All the works presented here reveal the artist’s precise line and his interest in notions of emptiness and volume which haunts his work. His subjects are transcended by the detail of his pencil drawings, as Robert Longo questions not only the cycle of life but also our physical and emotional powerlessness in face of the immensity of the universe. Majestic.
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