Feb 23, 2010 - Sale 2203

Sale 2203 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 48,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS (1945 - )
Jackie Sha-La-La (Jackie Cameron).

Oil and acrylic on canvas, 1975. 1270x1520 mm; 50x60 inches. Signed in oil, upper right.

Provenance: ACA Galleries, New York, with the label on the painting back; private New York collection.

Exhibited: Barkley Hendricks: Paintings, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, February 11 - March 28, 1976, with the label on the painting back.

Illustrated: Trevor Schoonmaker, Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool. Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2008, p. 119, fig. 10.

This painting by Barkley Hendricks is only his second large figurative work to come to auction. Born in Philadelphia, Barkley Hendricks studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Yale University. Since the late 1960s, Hendricks has painted life-sized representations of young, hip models and friends. He pushed the contemporary figure to new heights, pursuing realist portraiture on both a human and grand scale and empowering his subjects with a keen sense of style steeped in the skill of academic European portraiture.

Barkley Hendricks has taught painting at Connecticut College in New London, CT since 1972. He has had many solo exhibitions since 1970--including shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Delaware Art Museum, the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and ACA Galleries, New York. His paintings are found in numerous museum collections, including the National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art and the Yale University Art Gallery.