Lot 814
Douglas Bourgeois (American/Louisiana, b. 1951), "Lydia Lunch at Dusk", acrylic on canvas, signed and dated "1983 lower right, 20 in. x 20 in. E8000-12000 Provenance: Purchased from George Febres' Galerie Jules LaFarge in the French Quarter in the early 1980s. Note: Douglas Bourgeois emerged as a painter in the 1970s as part of a group of New Orleans artists known as the "visionary imagists". Born in the rural Southern Louisiana community of St. Amant, Bourgeois initially studied to become a priest. At Louisiana State University, he changed direction and decided to pursue a career as an artist. In this meticulously crafted painting of New York punk singer, writer and performance artist Lydia Lunch, Bourgeois drew on his fascination with both music and popular culture. Recently Bourgeois had a twenty-five year retrospective at the Contemporary Art Center entitled "Baby-Boom Daydreams: The Art of Douglas Bourgeois", his work is featured at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art and on the cover of the accompanying exhibition catalogue "The Art of the South 1890-2003". Reference: Randolph Delehanty, Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection, Louisiana State University Press, 1996, p. 225.
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