Aug 19, 2021 - Sale 2578

Sale 2578 - Lot 239

Price Realized: $ 25,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000

DAVID LIGARE (1945 - )


Landscape with Eros and Endymion.
Oil on canvas. 1525x1980 mm; 60x78 inches. Signed and dated in oil, verso. 1990-92.

Exhibited "David Ligare: Paintings," Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, February 8-March 7,1992; "David Ligare: California Classicist," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, June 7-September 20, 2015, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, October 18, 2015-January 17, 2016, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February 13-May 8, 2016, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, June 11, August 14, 2016, pg. 168 (illustrated).

Published Heidi Nickisher, "David Ligare," Artweek, March 1992, vol. 23, issue 9, pg. 19-20 (illustrated); Edward Lucie-Smith, American Realism, Abrams, New York, 1994, pg. 215, fig. 235 (illustrated).

Provenance: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Collection, New York.