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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ROBERT LOUGHLIN (1949-2011)
Untitled (Be Nice). Acrylic with felt-tip pen and ink on found object (book). 249x185 mm; 9 3/4x7 1/4 inches. Initialed, inscribed and dedicated "to Andy" with an abstract drawing in felt-tip pen and ink on the inside cover and front flyleaf.
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.
