RICHARD HAMBLETON | ORCHARD ST.

Lot Closed

March 7, 06:40 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

RICHARD HAMBLETON

1952 - 2017

ORCHARD ST.

signed, titled and dated 99 on the reverse

acrylic on aluminum stop sign

30 by 30 in. (76.2 by 76.2 cm.)

This work is in very good condition overall. There is minor wear and losses to the underlying found aluminum Stop Sign. There is a minor scuff with accompanying pinpoint loss near the figure's right ear, visible upon close inspection.

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Private Collection, California (acquired directly from the artist circa 2000)

Hambleton entered the New York City art scene in the 1980s alongside other street and graffiti artists such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Orchard St. belongs to his “Shadowman” paintings, which he began in the early 1980s. True to their name, these works represent a silhouetted image of some mysterious figure. Hambleton would also splash and brush with black paint his “shadow figures” on hundreds of buildings across New York City, eventually expanding the scope of his project to cities including Paris, London and Rome. This work takes its title from a stop sign on which he painted in the Lower East Side, where the artist lived and worked.