Purvis Young Original Red Paint, Van Gogh Picasso Miro of the Ghetto Miami COA

USD 395.00

Condition: Used

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View Purvis Young Original Red Paint, Van Gogh Picasso Miro of the Ghetto Miami COA with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. Purvis Young Original Small Signed House Paint. Quality piece of Purvis's work circa 1979-80. 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. Vintage 'Purvis' Red Firehouse paint piece on found Floral Pattern Wallpaper Purvis Young Original Small Signed House Paint Quality piece of Purvis's work circa 1979-80 Signed at top right third corner of work Excellent Gallery Condition - This piece will be shipped Framed with Gallery COA attached PROVENANCE: Purvis Young Private Collector through Estate 2015 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 Condition: Used. Category: Art › Paintings.