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ROBERT COLESCOTT (1925-2009)

Lot 10
07.11.2023 19:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1059119
Lot 10 | ROBERT COLESCOTT (1925-2009)
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ROBERT COLESCOTT (1925-2009)

Eat dem Taters

signed 'R. Colescott' (upper left); titled 'Eat dem TATERS' (upper right); titled again 'EAT DEM TATERS' (on the stretcher)

acrylic on canvas

59 x 79 in. (149.9 x 200.7 cm.)

Painted in 1975.





Provenance

Razor Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1975



Literature

J. Perrault, "Outrageous Black Pop," The Soho Weekly News, 1 May 1975, p. 19.

G. Battcock, Why Art: Casual Notes on the Aesthetics of the Immediate Past, New York, 1977, p. 104.

M. Tucker, Not Just for Laughs: The Art of Subversion, Michigan, 1981, p. 19.

J. Brandenburg, "New Art Show May Raise Some Eyebrows." The Oklahoman, 15 September 1988.

P. Johnson, "Artist Colescott sets his own standards," Houston Chronicle, 7 December 1988.

J. Russell, "Turbulent Restatements From Robert Colescott," The New York Times, 3 March 1989.

R. Lacavo, "Mocking Black Stereotypes, a Black Artist Makes Waves," People Magazine, vol. 31, no. 20, 22 May 1989.

R. Colescott, “Cultivating a Subversive Palette,” Reimagining America: The Arts of Social Change, Philadelphia and Santa Cruz,1990, p. 301 (illustrated).

J. Russel, Meanings Of Modern Art, Revised, Michigan, 1992, pp. 404, 407 and 461.

J. Ault, Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement, NYC, New York, 1996, p. 45.

C. West, D. L. Smith and J. Salzman, eds., Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: Volume 2, New York, 1996, p. 610.

U. Kultermann, "Reconstitucion Pictorica de la Historia Negra: La Obra de Robert Colescott." Goya, no. 259-260, 1997, p. 492 (illustrated).

A. C. Danto, Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, California, 1997, pp. 276 and 200.

L. M. Mabunda, The African American Almanac, New York, 1997, p. 1015.

J. Liljenwall, ed. Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings. Arizona, 1997, p. 18.

C. Tomkins, "Artist's Easel: Paint it Black," The New Yorker, 19 May 1997, p. 62.

K. McKenna, "Our Man in Venice," Los Angeles Times, 15 June 1997.

S. Fitzgerald, "Robert Colescott Rocks The Boat," American Visions: The Magazine of Afro-American Culture, June-July 1997, p. 16.

D. Sirlin,. "Robert Colescott," Art Papers, vol. 21, no. 6, November-December 1997, p. 71.

F. K. Miller, "Robert Colescott's acerbic brush," Art New England, vol. 19, December 1997-January 1998, p. 23.

S. F. Patton, African-American Art, Oxford, 1998, p. 236.

M. Kelly, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics: Volume 1, Oxford, 1998, p. 71.

J. Richardson, From Pure Visibility to Virtual Reality in an Age of Estrangement, Connecticut, 1998, p. 146.

S. Gubar, Racechanges: White Skin, Black Faces in American Culture, Oxford, 2000, p. 170 (illustrated).

J. C. Smith and J. M. Palmisano, Reference Library of Black America: Volume 5, Michigan, 2001, p. 1105.

E. Heartney and F. O. Gehry, A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, California, 2002, p. 78.

L. Hutcheon, Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony, London, 2003, p. 19.

G. DuBois Shaw, Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker, North Carolina, 2004, p. 109.

M Lobel, "Black to Front: Robert Colescott,” Artforum, October 2004, p. 267.

U. Kultermann, "Robert Colescott," epifanio, no. 3, 2006.

K. Mercer, ed., Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures, Massachusetts, 2007, p. 147.

D. M. Rothschild and D. L. Smith, Yardbird suite, Hammons 93, Michigan, 2007, p. 64.

E. York , Magical Secrets about Aquatint: Spit Bite, Sugar Lift & Other Etched Tones Step-by-step, California, 2008, p. 235.

A. Berk, ed., Robert Colescott: Troubled Goods. San Francisco, 2008, p. 6.

D. Jegede, Encyclopedia of African American Artists, Connecticut, 2009, p. 45.

R. Smith, "Robert Colescott, Painter Who Toyed With Race and Sex, Dies at 83," The New York Times, 10 June 2009.

E. Langer, "Painter's Take on Classics Challenged Color Lines," The Washington Post, 12 June 2009.

J. Rothfuss, E. Carpenter and E. Alexander, Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, California, 2010, p. 165.

L. Bracks, African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence, Michigan, 2011, p. 246.

L. Lefalle-Collins, “The Truisms of Robert Colescott,” Black Renaissance Noire, New York, 22 July 2013, p. 189.

S. J. Lauro, The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death, New Jersey, 2015, p. 115.

A. Rosenthal, No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, Dartmouth, 2015, pp. 14-15 (illustrated).

B. Quinn, Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order), San Francisco, 2017, p. 158.

E. L. Sanderson, Spike Lee's Bamboozled and Blackface in American Culture, North Carolina, May, 2019, p. 70.

T. Dafoe, "Robert Colescott Influenced a Generation of African American Artists. Now, a Major Retrospective Puts His Irreverent Art Front and Center," artnet news, 24 September 2019 (illustrated).

B. Schwabsky, "Robert Colescott: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati," ARTFORUM, Vol. 58, No. 3, November 2019 (illustrated).

K. Wilkin, "‘Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott’ Review: A Lasting, Charged Legacy," The Wall Street Journal, 5 November 2019.

S. Sorenson, "Artist Robert Colescott's Work Brings A Conversation About History, Black Identity to Portland Art Museum." TheSkanner.com, 20 February 2020.

M. Fugate, "Art Review: Sarasota Art Museum Explores Robert Colescott’s Satiric View of Racism," Herald Tribune, 11 June 2021.

P. Schjeldahl, "Goings on About Town: Robert Colescott," The New Yorker, June 2022.

B. Takac, "The New Museum Exhibition Charts the Sixty-Year-Long Career of Robert Colescott," WIDEWALLS, 30 June 2022 (illustrated).

R. Smith, "Robert Colescott Throws Down the Gauntlet," The New York Times, 7 July 2022 (illustrated).

A. Budick, "Robert Colescott, New Museum review — painter who used racist stereotypes to make America think," Financial Times, 13 July 2022 (illustrated).

P. Kennicott, "Will the day come when the art of Robert Colescott isn’t shocking?," The Washington Post, 18 August 2022 (illustrated).

M. Fernandez, "The Best Shows to See in New York Right Now," Frieze, 12 September 2022 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Razor Gallery, Robert Colescott: Paintings, April-May 1975.

San Jose Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Oregon, Portland Art Museum; Akron Art Museum; Museum of Art, Norman; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; New York, New Museum and Seattle Art Museum, Robert Colescott: A Retrospective 1975-1986, April-July 1989, pp. 4-5 and 30 (illustrated).

Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center; Oregon, Portland Art Museum and New York, New Museum, Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott, November 2019-October 2022, pp. 35 and 238, fig. 20 (illustrated).
Artist:Robert Colescott (1925 - 2009)
Art style:Contemporary art
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