(ART) REMBERT WINFRED Turpentine Gathering

Sale 2137 - Lot 132

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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

NOTED OUTSIDER ARTIST (ART.) REMBERT, WINFRED. Turpentine Gathering. Acrylic on tooled leather, 33x22 inches. Signed on the frame back. Np, 1999

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Winfred Rembert was born in a small town in Georgia in 1945. As a child he was taken to the cotton fields where his aunt worked; by the time he was ten, he was laboring in the fields himself. During the pitch of the Civil Rights Movement, Rembert was arrested. He escaped from the local jail, but was captured, beaten and sentenced to twenty-seven years in the Georgia State Penitentiary. There, in 1972, Rembert learned leatherwork from a fellow convict. At the time, he only made belts and wallets, but after his release, his wife encouraged him to return to leatherwork, and the rest, as they say, "is history." Since 1997, Rembert has been recording the images of his life in intricate leatherwork. He has had several shows and is exhibited in several American collections.