Aug 18, 2022 - Sale 2613

Sale 2613 - Lot 338

Price Realized: $ 2,340
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

ROBERT LOUGHLIN (1949-2011)


The Yardbirds.
Acrylic on found canvas. 380x760 mm; 15x30 inches. Signed, titled and dated in oil, verso. 2003.

Provenance: Private collection, New York.

Loughlin was well-known as a picker and dealer of mid-century furniture who sold to high-end interior designers and artists such as Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and Jean-Michel Basquiat. He started painting his iconic "brute", the square-jawed man smoking a cigarette, in the early 1980s and used found objects such as furniture, textiles, boxes and even other artist's paintings as his canvases.