Florida Outsider Artist Purvis Young Figurative Abstract Oil On Board Painting

Description: For sale is an original oil on board figurative abstract painting by the world renown Florida outsider artist Purvis Young (1943 - 2010 Provenance: Estate of Glen Mayo, noted metal sculpture artist who lived in both southern Florida and upstate New York. An exceptional example by this artist. Done in his distinct style this painting features a figure with a sword leading a horse up a hill. The surrounding landscape is done in very action packed whispy dashes of paintbrush strokes in numerous colors of greens whites grays and yellows. Interspersed throughout are gestural swirly figural forms in reds blues greens and grays. One can even see a piece of carpet fiber stuck in the paint (see pics) Young made several works featuring these Don Quixote type figures. This is an excellent example! Boldly signed by the artist in his distinct signature upper right. Oil on masonite board. Framed in an black lacquer gallery frame. Condition: Overall good. The frame with several areas of scuffing (see pics) Measurements: Framed - 29 1/4" x 33 1/4" Sight Size - 15 1/2" x 19 1/2" 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 lives and works in Overtown, a neighborhood in Miami cut off by the highway overpasses that loom over it. He is "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.

Price: 1400 USD

Location: Kingston, New York

End Time: 2024-11-26T22:20:42.000Z

Shipping Cost: 65 USD