Contemporary Art Online | New York
Contemporary Art Online | New York
RICHARD HAMBLETON | SHADOW CAT (GOLD)
Lot Closed
December 6, 06:03 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
RICHARD HAMBLETON
1952 - 2017
SHADOW CAT (GOLD)
signed and dated 99; signed along the right turning edge
acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
Canvas: 40 by 30 in. (101.6 by 76.2 cm.)
Framed: 41⅝ by 31⅝ in. (105.7 by 80.3 cm.)
Stamped with Woodward Gallery, N.Y.C. inventory number WGRH1313.
Private Collection, United States (Acquired directly from the artist)
Rikki Rothman, New York
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”.