Bob (Robert Louis) Thompson ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Bob (Robert Louis) Thompson: Self-portrait with Carol

1937 Louisville, Kentucky - 1966 Rome, Italy. Known for: Figurative expressionist painting, religion.

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An African-American, Bob Thompson had success in the 1960s as an artist, which was unusual for black artists of that era and led to his becoming a pivotal figure for African-American artists and for art historians. However, his life was cut short when he died in Rome in 1966 just before his twenty-ninth birthday. Thompson was a modernist who adapted Paul Gauguin's Fauvist use of interlocking planes of bright colors. He often used Biblical subjects, and created an effect of idealized, faceless figures. Among his paintings were Flagellation of Christ and St. George and the Dragon. Living among avant-garde artists in New York City, where he briefly had a studio on Rivington Street, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, he was at odds with the... Read full biography

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Untitled (Figures in Landscape)

Type:Drawing

Year:1966

Size:19.25" x 13.50"

Medium:Mixed Media

Signed:Unsigned

Notes:

Thompson, Bob (Robert Louis) (American 1937-1966). Untitled (Mother and child in landscape). Unsigned - gallery tag dated 1966 included verso. Mixed media including graphite, crayon, marker / ink on paper. Provenance estate of Roy and Sophia Sieber.

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