RARE Purvis Young Original Carpet,House Paint,Van Gogh Picasso Ghetto Miami Miro

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View RARE Purvis Young Original Carpet,House Paint,Van Gogh Picasso Ghetto Miami Miro with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. Classic Tribal Pregnancy Piece showing Purvis in all his Greatness at the Height of the Vietnam War. Museum Quality piece of Purvis's Work Circa 1968. Acquired from the Bass Museum in Miami. The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. Extremely Rare Purvis Young Original Master Enigmatic Very Early Carpet Piece from the Late Sixties  Classic Tribal Pregnancy Piece showing Purvis in all his Greatness at the Height of the Vietnam War  The Earthy Usage of Vintage Carpet Pieces and Roof Shingle  scraps meshes beautifully with the Pregnant Goddess surrounded by her Angels painted in House Paint on Fabric Has distinct 'African American' Earthy hues  Signed 'upside down' at Top Center Right 'Young' Museum Quality piece of Purvis's   Work Circa  1968 18 x 25 approx inches   PROVENANCE Acquired from the Bass Museum in Miami. ( They sold off some of their Purvis Young collection a number of Years ago to Finance an expansion) An Investment Grade Blue Chip addition to your Collection Gallery COA attached   Purvis Young (1943-2010) The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes.     At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture.     It is to "outsider art" what be bop is to the blues.     The subject matter rides on a thick layer of color, attention, choice, free-swinging composition that refers to a thousand years of composition before it.   Young lived and worked in Overtown, a neighborhood in Miami cut off by the highway overpasses that loom over it.     He was "of the community, but is also, now, of the larger art world as well."     He has researched art history avidly and has seen what other artists have done, spending years in the libraries that have supported his work. He has chosen his imagery out of Overtown and his own life, and out of the resonances of the past as well. Young's choices of materials-the discarded boards he uses to paint on and to "frame" works; the fragments of text, the use of books to mount the works-are not made by happenstance, though early on they may have been the fruit of necessity.     Now these are elements of meaning.     Now they insist on the presence of the street, full of stuff, humanity, words, scraps, full of the exchanges that create the most exciting cultural milieu in the world, creative, tragic, excessive, beautiful, wasteful. - Ann Klefstad Category: Art › Paintings.