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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
LAWRENCE FINNEY (1963 - ) The Struggle to Understand.
Oil on cotton canvas, 2000. 914x914 mm; 36x36 inches. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, upper left verso.
Provenance: private New York collection.
This dramatic canvas is the first oil painting by this contemporary figurative artist to come to auction. Born in Brooklyn, Lawrence Finney studied art at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, the School of the Visual Arts, New York City and Warren County Community College, New Jersey. This oil is typical of a series made between 1993 and 2003 with heroic, stylized figures, greatly influenced by Charles White, George Tooker, the Mexican muralists and social realism in general. Finney's paintings were included in the 2002 Studio Museum in Harlem exhibition Black Romantic: The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary African American Art and the 2006 University of Houston exhibition Highlights from the Collection of Corrine Jennings and Joe Overstreet.
