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Lot 115:
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Lowell Nesbitt "Red and Yellow Tulip" Titled, dated, and signed "…’74/L. NESBITT" on the reverse, with a label from Paul Sipos, Inc., New York, affixed to the stretcher bar and an ink stamp from Christie’s applied to the stretcher bar. Oil on canvas, 80 x 70 in., framed. Lowell Nesbitt was an American painter and printmaker best known for his large-scale depictions of flowers. These frontal paintings of irises, lilies, tulips, orchids, and roses, isolated the flower from space, pressing them against a monochromatic or patterned background. Though grouped into the Photorealist movement, Nesbitt’s stylization of objects was more akin to the works of Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol and James Rosenquest. Scattered areas of craquelure, scattered minor abrasions near edges (some with small pigment losses), abrasion at center, stretcher marks, varnish inconsistencies.
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