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Tim Liddy Game of Boom or Bust (1951) Presidential Sweepstakes 2006 Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back
TIM LIDDY
“Game of Boom or Bust” (1951) Presidential Sweepstakes 2006
Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back
Signed in script: Tim Liddy “circa 1951” 2006, red circular ring
Provenance: William Shearburn Gallery (St. Louis, MO)
H: 15 1/8” x W: 15 1/8” x D: 2”
With his recent paintings, Liddy has both reasserted the construct of hyperrealist painting and developed a thoroughly unique advancement of that mode by extending the cultural reality of the indexed original. Based on the illustrated box lids of vintage board games, Liddy has recontextualized a subject, which evokes the underlying rules of life. Painted on copper or steel in the precise dimensions of the original, the metal is then manipulated to demonstrate the exact rips and tears from years of usage and includes trompe-l’oeil renditions of the scotch tape that might be holding the cardboard box together, the assorted stains, or the various graffiti of time. Liddy leaves no possibility of ambivalence, these works speak to a concurrent understanding of their original object identity and to themselves as works of art engaged in historical and psychological dialogue.
Tim Liddy Game of Boom or Bust (1951) Presidential Sweepstakes 2006 Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back
ROTISLAW RACOFF (1904 – 1982) Russia
The Rose 1953
Oil on panel, Dutch style ebonized frame
Signed: Racoff ’53 (lower left), R. Racoff Paris 1953, 64 (on back of frame), Far Gallery, 746 Madison Avenue, New York, Regent for 4-7287 (paper label)
Painting: H: 16 1/8” x W: 7 5/8”
Framed: H: 20 3/4″ x D: 12 1/4″
Other works by Rotislaw Racoff are in the permanent collection of the Fondation Dina Viemy – Musée Maillol in Paris
Grosfeld House New York
Lucite stool circa 1940.
Cylindrical lucite base stool with gold lucite wrap like connecting elements, silk upholstery.
H: 16 1/4″ x W: 13 1/2″ x D: 16 1/2″
Grosfeld House Furniture Company manufactured some iconic designs of the twentieth century. Some of the great designers that work for the company were Vladimir Kagan and Lorin Jackson. They produced some of the earliest chairs using Lucite starting in the 1930’s and through the Post War Era.