Lot 1103
Robert P Gordy (American/New Orleans, 1933-1986), 'Urns, Lemons and Females', acrylic on canvas, signed and dated '1966', tondo 32in diameter E4000-6000 Provenance: Exhibited and reproduced in the catalogue 'Robert Gordy: Paintings and Drawings 1960-1980', by Gene Baro, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1981, p 24. Note: By the mid-1960s, Robert Gordy had developed his individual style of painting, which combines repetitive images and patterns with flat colors These engaging and often amusing and erotic paintings earned the New Orleans artist national acclaim In 1967, Gordy was awarded an Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and exhibited in Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York The painting 'Urns, Lemons and Females' is an important work from this time period and was selected for the first major retrospective of Gordy's work after his untimely death of AIDS.
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