Contemporary Curated
Contemporary Curated
Property from a Distinguished American Collection
Robert Colescott
Café au Lait au Lit
Auction Closed
September 30, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished American Collection
Robert Colescott
1925 - 2009
Café au Lait au Lit
signed RColescott (lower right)
acrylic on canvas
79 ½ by 59 ⅝ in.
201.93 by 151.4 cm.
Executed in 1974.
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2017
Lowery S. Sims, "Bob Colescott Ain't Just Misbehavin'," Artforum, March 1984, p. 59
Lizzetta Lefalle-Collins, "The Truisms of Robert Colescott," Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, vol. 13, no. 1 Spring/Summer 2013
Lowery Stokes Sims, "Colescott in the 1980s and '90s: Stranger in A Strange Land, Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott, 2019 p. 105 (text)
Lowery Stokes Sims, "Snap! Crackle! Pow!," Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties, 2022, pl. 35, p. 274, illustrated
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Robert Colescott: Paintings, July - August 1975