Aug 19, 2021 - Sale 2578

Sale 2578 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

HARVEY REDDING


Group of approximately 129 postcards.
Color xerox postcards, each approximately 140x89mm, 5 1/2x3 1/2 inches. Most with a series of rubber stamps on their versos, including "Post Card," "Ban High Heels," "This is Not Art," "New York Burn," "What Culture?" "Women Stop Dressing up for Men," "Scenic View," and "Meltdown." 3 hand signed by the artist in pencil, two of which are dated 1979. Includes a few duplicates. [New York.] Circa 1979.

Redding, a commercial graphic designer and painter, spent time in the late 1970s designing postcards, as their smaller format was much easier to work with than paintings in his New York City apartment. In the early 2000s Redding founded the Queer Men's Erotic Art Workshop which held live, nude drawing classes at the Leslie Lohman Museum.