Roy Dean De Forest ART FOR SALE

1930 North Platte, Nebraska - 2007 Valejo, California. Known for: Modernist naive drollery painting, funk collage.

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Roy De Forest became a painter of work not easily categorized because of his independent approach to the profession. He has evolved through several styles from abstraction to funk to realism with subjects ranging from non-objective to realistic animals. His early work was comprised of larger, overlapping, amorphous shapes in bright colors with detailed patterns within. However, a consistent philosophy for his mature work has been irreverence for academic convention and a joy in being creative and finding his own way. In his paintings, he expresses a personal pleasure in how own fantasies from which he constructs "hypothetical beings, situations and worlds". The intent is to "preserve this possible world, with all its animals and creatures,... Read full biography

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Untitled

Type:Painting

Year:1958

Size:69.00" x 73.00" x 2.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Unsigned

Notes:

Important, very early painting show in recent Roy De Forest exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California Art, exhibition catalog illustration page 41. This oil and collage painting is an iconic representation of his pre-figurative and funk art style of his later work.

Price: Please contact Foster Gwin Gallery

A Dog's Eye View of Egypt

Type:Print

Year:1995

Size:37.00" x 57.25"

Medium:Lithograph

Signed:Signed and Dated

Edition:ed. 4 of 20

Notes:

This work was offered in the 2026 Fall Larsen Art Auction and is now available for purchase in our post-auction sale. Contact us at gallery@larsengallery.com or 480-941-0900 to make an offer. Visit LarsenArtAuction.com to view all post-auction lots.

Price: $6,000. Please contact Larsen Art Auction