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American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists
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- Sale 2780
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| Philadelphia
Dec 3 | 2:00 PM EST
Live
| Philadelphia
Sale 2780
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$40,000 – $60,000
According to the artist, Fear of Division "is based on my early childhood memories of the Cuban missile crisis.. we were taught in school to drop and cover or hide under our desks if the bomb hit... one day my brother and I were out in the field below our house (where the Red Lobster is now on 13th - the 'tower' in the painting is actually the WRBL TV tower) and we saw the very first jet stream we'd ever seen- there weren't many commercial jets flying over West Georgia in the early '60s, My brother told me that the jet stream was the bomb, and that’s the moment I tried to capture in the painting, he is yelling, "Hit the Dirt, It's the End of the World!" I am crying on the ground. He kept it up, and I kept on crying. This happened around the same time that Camelot was crumbling, Kennedy was shot, I was having petite-mal seizures and I was completely confounded with the concept of division in second grade - addition, multiplication, and subtraction, I could grasp, but division was the beginning of my dysfunctional relationship with math. As Mrs. Hayes, my teacher would start a lesson on division, I'd go into a seizure.. I suppose on some level I was a victim of the age of anxiety, I had Fear of Division. Perhaps it explains why I still have separation anxiety" (Bo Bartlett).
P·P·O·W., New York, New York.
Private Collection, Connecticut.
The unlined canvas in excellent original condition, with no sign of inpainting as seen under UV light except from a few small retouches along the left outer edge of the canvas. See Specialist's pictures for more details.
For more information on this Lot, please contact Raphael Chatroux at [email protected]
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