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'71 US Litho Print 19/75 Taxi Pretzel Red (Charles Rogers) Grooms (B. 1937)(PaR)

'71 US Litho Print 19/75 Taxi Pretzel Red (Charles Rogers) Grooms (B. 1937)(PaR)

Regular price $2,479.00 USD
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Up for sale from a recent estate in Honolulu Hawaii, this 1971 US limited edition of 19/75 color lithograph print on paper that is titled "Taxi Pretzel" from the no gas portfolio and is signed in pencil and was created by the iconic artist Red (Charles Rogers) Grooms (born 1937). The item was originally purchased at the Fendrick Gallery in February of 1972. The condition is described above for more information please check the photos. Free local pick up possible!!! We are working with Oppenheimer Inc. in Chicago for our paper conservation needs. We are getting a discount on any work due to the volume we are doing that I would be happy to extent to the winning bidder.


Measurements:

Image 27 ¾ inches x 21 ¾ inches

Frame 34 ½ inches x 28 ½ inches


More about the artist:

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Red Grooms is known for whimsical sculptural tableaux and paintings, especially with circus themes. He works with all kinds of materials including paper, plaster, wood, found objects, and cardboard. About his work, he said he has "a giddy sense of reality."


He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, and the New School of Social Research in New York. In Provincetown, Massachusetts, he was a student of Abstract Expressionist Hans Hoffman.


In New York, he was a participant in "Happenings" or performance art, along with Jim Dine, Allan Kaprow, and Claes Oldenburg. For Grooms, this activity was an outgrowth of his interest in the pageantry of the circus, something that has intrigued him throughout his life.


A successful full-time artist and resident of New York City, he has held visiting professorships in several universities.


In 1999, he completed his largest project, which was The Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel in full scale in his home town of Nashville's Riverfront Park near the Grand Ole Opry House. The piece is decorated with scenes from Nashville's history and includes sculpted seats, painted dioramas and heroic figures such as Andrew Jackson and Davey Crockett

Condition: 

The print is in good pre-owned condition, not inspected out of the frame, the fabric mat with some brown staining in places, the plexi with some abrasions in places, w. collection card giving the artist name and where and when purchased, this and the other artworks listed with the client code (PaR) were collected by a archivist of the National Archive in DC over the past 50 years, the print can be taken out of the frame for a much more economical shipping rate

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