Contemporary Art Online | New York

Contemporary Art Online | New York

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 445. RICHARD HAMBLETON |  PASSING THROUGH MARLBORO COUNTRY .

New York/New Wave: From Walls to Canvas

RICHARD HAMBLETON | PASSING THROUGH MARLBORO COUNTRY

Lot Closed

October 2, 04:40 PM GMT

Estimate

35,000 - 45,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

New York/New Wave: From Walls to Canvas

RICHARD HAMBLETON

1952 - 2017

PASSING THROUGH MARLBORO COUNTRY 


titled and dated 1984 on the reverse

oil on canvas board 

Canvas: 11 by 14 in. (27.9 by 35.5 cm.)

Framed: 13¾ by 16¾ in. (34.9 by 42.5 cm.)

Stamped with Woodward Gallery, N.Y.C. inventory number WGRH1251. 

Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

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”.


“His early Shadowman period led to shadow images of bucking horses and riders on walls and canvases. By 1984, he had turned to the Marlboro Man, the cowboy figure whose macho image promoted cigarettes for decades. Mr. Hambleton, who smoked, toyed with the image, painting shadow figures over it, sometimes mixing tobacco with black paint for what he called a ‘black lung’ effect”


(New York Times, 3 Nov 2017)