Feb 17, 2011 - Sale 2237

Sale 2237 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
KEVIN E. COLE (1960 - )
Vision of Hope, Dancer in the Dark.

Mixed media on cream wove paper, 1994. 775x600 mm; 30 1/2x23 1/2 inches. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection.

Contemporary artist Kevin Cole has become widely known for his abstract rendering of ties in brighly colored, three-dimensional abstract assemblage. Born in Pine Bluff, AR in 1960, Cole graduated from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, and received a M.A. in Art Education and Painting from the University of Illinois and a M.F.A. from the University of Northern Illinois. His works today are in many institutional collections, such as the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, and the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Atlanta.