Feb 17, 2009 - Sale 2169

Sale 2169 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
BERNARD CASEY (1939 - )
You Can Win the Game if It's Your Turn.

Oil on canvas, 1966. 915x1220 mm; 36x48 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.

Provenance: the artist; Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, with the label on the frame back; Joanne and Jules Glazer, Palm Springs, CA.

NFL football player, television and movie actor, Bernie Casey showed his painting extensively in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He received both his B.A. and M.F.A. in Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University, and served on the Board of Trustees at the Savannah College of Art and Design for over 20 years. His paintings are found in the permanent collections of the Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, the Beverly Hills Library and the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC.