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Robert Stanley
b. 1932, d. 1997
"Gabriella #427". Signed R. Stanley '90; signed, titled and
dated on the reverse. Oil on canvas. 165 x 178 cm.
Provenance: Private Collection.
Robert Stanley was born in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1932. After attending
Columbia University for two years, he received a bachelor's
degree in English literature in 1953 from Oglethorpe College in
Atlanta and studied art at the High Museum of Art. Back in New
York, he first worked in collage. In the early 1960's, he began to base
his paintings on images clipped from newspapers and magazines,
following the example of Pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy
Lichtenstein, who would become his brother-in-law. His preferred
subjects, including rock stars, sporting events and pornography,
always seem to grate against the pretenses of high art. In the late
1960's the artist started using his own photographs, basing paintings
on images of tree branches or the ground, and also using
pictures of life-drawing models at the School of Visual Arts, where
he was a faculty member for 16 years. His work is represented in
many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of
American Art. DKK 225.000-275.000 / € 30.000-37.000
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