No, despite not too many people knowing about Forrest Bess, he does have a small but knowledgeable and ardent following and there was a retrospective of his work at the Whitney Museum almost 30 years ago. The essay by Barbara Haskell on the site details the impetus to a lot of the imagery of the work, motivated by a theory of androgeny that led him to a series of operations.
Not sure how much this painting would bring at auction, but I would think at least $15-20k. We get to have small web images at least :)
he's one of my top 5 painters of all time. i have an amazing documentary on him on vhs, if you haven't seen it you should look for it. these paintings totally kick my butt...great great great...
Thanks for introducing me to a painter I knew nothing about. I went to the Bess Web site. Is that painting yours, Joey?
ReplyDeleteI've always been a big fan of these little paintings. thanks joey
ReplyDeleteOh jeez, I wish it were mine!
ReplyDeleteNo, despite not too many people knowing about Forrest Bess, he does have a small but knowledgeable and ardent following and there was a retrospective of his work at the Whitney Museum almost 30 years ago. The essay by Barbara Haskell on the site details the impetus to a lot of the imagery of the work, motivated by a theory of androgeny that led him to a series of operations.
Not sure how much this painting would bring at auction, but I would think at least $15-20k. We get to have small web images at least :)
he's one of my top 5 painters of all time. i have an amazing documentary on him on vhs, if you haven't seen it you should look for it. these paintings totally kick my butt...great great great...
ReplyDeleteI had no idea there was a documentary. I'm definitely going to look it up! Thanks Steve!
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