Feb 17, 2011 - Sale 2237

Sale 2237 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DANNY SIMMONS (1954 - )
Untitled (Abstract Composition).

Mixed media on thick wove paper, 1997. 760x560 mm; 30x22 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: private collection.

Contemporary New York artist, collector and dealer, Danny Simmons has shown his abstract paintings and works on paper extensively in museum and gallery exhibitions over the past 15 years. His works are in the Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, the Hampton Museum, Hampton, VA and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York. Simmons owns the Rush Arts Gallery in Manhattan and Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn. A poet and cofounder of the Def Poetry Jam performance series, he also heads the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation with his brother, Russell Simmons.