Contemporary Art Online | New York
Contemporary Art Online | New York
RICHARD HAMBLETON | JUMPING SHADOW
Lot Closed
December 6, 05:59 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
RICHARD HAMBLETON
1952 - 2017
JUMPING SHADOW
signed and dated 99 along the right turning edge
acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
Canvas: 79 by 37½ in. (200.6 by 95.2 cm.)
Framed: 80¾ by 39⅛ in. (205.1 by 99.3 cm.)
Stamped with Woodward Gallery, N.Y.C. inventory number WGRH1125
Private Collection, US (acquired directly from the artist)
Woodward Gallery, NYC
An American-Canadian graffiti artist, Richard Hambleton initially attracted public attention by painting faux crime-scene outlines of bodies on pavements. In the early 1980s, Hambleton painted buildings in the Lower East Side of New York City alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, during which time the artist also began to portray iterations of his highly recognized Shadowman figures onto found objects and canvases. According to the artist, “they could represent watchmen or danger or the shadows of a human body after a nuclear holocaust or even my own shadow”.