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PURVIS YOUNG (1943 - 2010) Untitled.
Oil on silk cloth, circa 2005. 940x660 mm; 37x26 inches. Signed in oil, upper right.
Provenance: Cohen Gallery, Goggle Works Center for the Arts, Reading, PA, with the label on the frame back; private collection, New York (2011).
Self-taught artist Purvis Young is known internationally for his highly expressive collages and paintings. In his unique manner, he painted his experiences and those of the people around him living in the poverty of Overtown, an African-American neighborhood of Miami, Florida. He often incorporated found objects, including scrap metal, book pages, and discarded envelopes into his work. Young was the subject of a large scale exhibition, Purvis Young, including 100 paintings at the Rubell Collection in Miami, December 3, 2018 – June 22, 2019. His art works were also featured in the exhibition History Refused to Die; Highlights from the Soul Grown Deep Foundation Gift, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 22 - September 23, 2018. HIs artworks are now included in many institutional collections, including the Smithsonian American Museum of Art, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, the High Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
