Oct 19, 2023 - Sale 2649

Sale 2649 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
VICTOR H. SPARROW IV (1967 - )
Wallpaper as Landscape.

Oil on cotton canvas, 1990. 813x648 mm; 32x25 1/2 inches. Initialed, titled and dated in ink, verso.

Provenance: private collection, Washington, DC.

In this early painting, Victor Sparrow explores the imagery of pop culture within the history of genre painting. Before receiving his MFA degree in painting from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993, Sparrow was the recipient of a Skowhegan residency, a fellowship for a National Gallery of Art internship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work is in such collections of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution and the William Benton Museum of the University of Connecticut.