Apr 04, 2024 - Sale 2664

Sale 2664 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 45,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
ALVIN D. LOVING, JR (1935 - 2005)
Wild Goose Lake.

Acrylic on cotton canvas, 1981. 1524x1524 mm; 60x60 inches. Signed, titled and dated "February 27, 1981" in pencil, verso.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, New York (1981).

Exhibited: Seven American Artists, Cleveland Museum of Art, January 11 - February 13, 1983, with the label on the lower stretcher bar.

This large canvas is an excellent example from Al Loving's early 1980s Wild Goose Lake series of abstraction. He exhibited paintings from this series in the 1983 Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition, Seven American Artists, and later at June Kelly Gallery, New York in 1988 and 1989.