Head 16
Type:Painting
Year:1959
Size:35.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Head 16 1959 French oil on canvas 35 x 24 inches signed and dated From a private collection in Chicago, IL
Leon Golub ART FOR SALE
1922 Chicago, Illinois - 2004 New York City. Known for: Modernist morose figure-genre and portrait painting, collage.
The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001. Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee. By AMEI WALLACH. I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001. Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee. By AMEI WALLACH. I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying in his street-smart Chicago cadence. "When I paint a skull, I don't do it with eyebrows furrowed.".... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001. Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee. By AMEI WALLACH. I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying in his street-smart Chicago cadence. "When I paint a skull, I don't do it with eyebrows furrowed.". He has taken the more uncomfortable of the two chairs in his Greenwich Village studio, a battered metal affair, although his 79-year-old bones don't give him much relief. There's no more getting down... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001. Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee. By AMEI WALLACH. I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying in his street-smart Chicago cadence. "When I paint a skull, I don't do it with eyebrows furrowed.". He has taken the more uncomfortable of the two chairs in his Greenwich Village studio, a battered metal affair, although his 79-year-old bones don't give him much relief. There's no more getting down on the floor to scrape a canvas, as in the old days in the 1980's, when he flayed the blood-red backgrounds behind his graphic, nearly 10- foot-high paintings of torturers, mercenaries and thugs with a meat cleaver. Those paintings are the centerpiece... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001. Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee. By AMEI WALLACH. I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying in his street-smart Chicago cadence. "When I paint a skull, I don't do it with eyebrows furrowed.". He has taken the more uncomfortable of the two chairs in his Greenwich Village studio, a battered metal affair, although his 79-year-old bones don't give him much relief. There's no more getting down on the floor to scrape a canvas, as in the old days in the 1980's, when he flayed the blood-red backgrounds behind his graphic, nearly 10- foot-high paintings of torturers, mercenaries and thugs with a meat cleaver. Those paintings are the centerpiece of a retrospective, "Leon Golub: Paintings, 1950-2000," organized by the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and on... Read full biography
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