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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ROBERT LOUGHLIN (1949-2011)
Untitled Brute (Sigmar Polke 51). Oil on canvas. 610x911 mm; 24x36 inches. Initialed, dated and inscribed "Sigmar Polk 51" and "Sidney Janis April" in oil, verso. 2006.
Provenance: The artist; Richard Lambert, Antiques Garage Flea Market, New York.
Richard Lambert, dealer and friend of Loughlin, sold the artist's works at the Antiques Garage Flea Market, located at 112 West 25th Street in Chelsea, from 1994 until the market's closing. The space was a converted parking garage and held approximately 100 dealers on any given weekend. The venue closed in the summer of 2014, replaced by new development. Loughlin frequented flea markets and was well-known as a picker who utilized his finds in his own work. He was also a 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.
