Live Auction 14188Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Bob Thompson (1937-1966)
Lot 603

Bob Thompson (1937-1966)

Salome's Dance or Feast of Herod

Closed18 May 2017

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Bob Thompson (1937-1966)
Salome's Dance or Feast of Herod
signed and dated ''61 Bob Thompson' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 52 in. (91.7 x 132 cm.)
Painted in 1961.

Collection of Horace Richter
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"Painters in the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance... were employed to educate the people... they could walk into a cathedral, look at the wall and see what was happening... I am not specifically trying to do that... but I am trying to show what's happening, what's going on in my own private way."

Bob Thompson, quoted in T. Golden, Bob Thompson, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1997, p. 61.