Live Auction 16979Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Robert Colescott (1925-2009)
Lot 817

Robert Colescott (1925-2009)

The Phone Call

Closed16 May 2019

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USD 275,000

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Robert Colescott (1925-2009)
The Phone Call
signed and dated 'R Colescott 78' (lower right)
oil on canvas
84 x 65 3/8 in. (213.4 x 166.1 cm.)
Painted in 1978.

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, 1980

Specialist note

"I discover the nuanced sophistication in his raucous imagery. It's like hearing a jazz master transform some silly pop tune that, thus estranged, begins to seem not so silly after all. Colescott rips into crude iconography to free crazy energies it entombs." (P. Schjeldahl, "The Social Comedian," Village Voice, 28 May 1998).