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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 18, 2012 | Swann Galleries | New York | African-American Fine Art | 148 | $****** - ****** | Blue Trane |
paintings
38.1 x 66 cm (15 x 25.98 in)
Oil and acrylic on stitched canvas, with collage
Signed, dated and titled in ink, upper stretcher bar verso
acquired directly from the artist; private New York collection.
FRANK BOWLING (1936 - )
Blue Trane .
Oil and acrylic on stitched canvas, with collage, 1992. 381x660 mm; 15x26 inches. Signed, dated and titled in ink, upper stretcher bar verso.
The collaged item is half of a credit card that belonged to the artist Joe Overstreet, with his embossed name visible.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private New York collection.
Frank Bowling, born in British Guyana and a graduate of the Slade School of Art, splits his time between New York and London, and his career as a painter, writer and art instructor has thus been trans-Atlantic. While included in many exhibitions internationally over his long career, Bowling achieved acclaim in New York in the early 1970s when he was included in both the 1971 and 1973 Whitney Biennials, and had a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971. The artist received Guggenheim fellowships in 1967 and 1973, and two Pollock-Krasner awards in 1992 and 1998. Bowling's work is found in many important institutional collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Menil Foundation, Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
