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RICHARD ESTES | UNTITLED [4 WORKS]

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December 10, 05:33 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 USD

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RICHARD ESTES

b. 1932

UNTITLED [4 WORKS]

i-iv. watercolor and graphite on paper

i. 6 by 9 in. (15.2 by 22.9 cm); ii. 8 by 11 in. (20.3 by 27.9 cm); iii. 7 by 5 in. (17.8 by 12.7 cm); iv. 5 by 7 in. (12.7 by 17.8 cm)

i. Executed circa 1970.

ii. Executed circa 1970.

iii. Executed in 1978.

iv. Executed in 1978.

Please note that this work will be exhibited at Sotheby’s. Purchased items will be available for collection at Crozier Fine Arts, 1 Star Ledger Plaza, Newark, NJ as of Thursday, December 13th.

i-iv. Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

During the time he exhibited with Allan Stone, from his first solo exhibition in 1968 until 1983, Estes became established as one of the world's foremost Photo Realist painters. Despite their looser brush work, Estes' 1960s works featuring city life and people engaged in everyday activities laid the groundwork for extremely refined, masterfully detailed paintings of windowed storefronts and unassuming urban settings with an almost dreamlike atmosphere. Estes is the recipient of a National Council for the Arts fellowship and is a member of the National Academy of Design. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others.