?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CHUCK ARNETT (1928-1988)
Fifteen drawings from San Francisco. Untitled (Men's room), pencil on paper, 273 x 216 mm; 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Signed in pen in lower left image. Untitled (Eat Ass), pastel, watercolor, and pencil on paper, 279 x 203 mm; 11 x 8 inches. Singed in pen in lower right image. Untitled (Two male studies), pencil on paper, 305 x 229 mm; 12 x 9 inches. Signed in pen in lower right image. Untitled (Two men in bondage), pen and ink on paper, 279 x 216 mm; 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Signed in lower left image. Untitled (Four men) pen and ink on paper, 279 x 210 mm; 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Signed in lower left image. Untitled (Erotic drawing), pen and ink on paper, 210 x 279 mm; 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Signed in lower left image. Untitled (Hot Shit), pencil on paper, 279 x 203 mm; 11 x 8 inches. Signed in pen in lower right image. Untitled (Erotic drawing in men's room), pastel, watercolor and ink on paper, 114 x 152 mm; 4 1/2 x 6 inches. Signed. Untitled (Man), pen and pencil on paper, 159 x 140 mm; 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Signed in lower right image. Untitled (Two military men), pen and watercolor on paper, 152 x 102 mm; 6 x 4 inches. Signed in upper left image. Untitled (Man in repose), pastel and ink on paper, 114 x 165 mm; 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, signed in left margin, circa 1980. Untitled (erotic sketch of two men), pencil on paper, 241 x 356 mm; 9 1/2 x 14 inches, signed and dated in lower left image. "Jesus Christ Satan Messiah for Governor of California," pen and pencil on paper, 330 x 438 mm; 13 x 7 1/4 inches, signed and dated in lower left image.
Arnett was most famous for the murals he painted in San Francisco's legendary leather bar the "Tool Box." When the institution was featured in life magazine's "Homosexuality in America" article in June, 1964, photographs of the interior featuring the murals propelled Arnett to international fame.
