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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Barkley L. Hendricks

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9,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD

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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Barkley L. Hendricks

(1945 - 2017)


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signed and dated 73 (upper right)

oil and acrylic on canvas, in two parts

overall: 72 ⅝ by 105 ¼ in.  184.5 by 267.3 cm.

Executed in 1973.

Acquired directly from the artist in June 2009 by the present owner

Greenville County Museum of Art; Charleston, Gibbes Art Gallery; and South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Barkley L. Hendricks: Recent Paintings, August - November 1975, no. 12, illustrated in color (on the cover)

New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Barkley L. Hendricks: Oils, Watercolors, Collages and Photographs, January - March 1980, no. 1, n.p., illustrated in color and n.p. (text)

Doreen Mangan, "Barkley Hendricks and his Figurative Drama," American Artist, Vol. 40, Iss. 408, July 1976, p. 36 (text) and p. 38, illustrated

Doreen Mangan, "Barkley Hendricks" in: Susan E. Meyer, ed., 20 Figure Painters and How They Work, New York 1979, p. 76 (text) and p. 79, illustrated in color

Dennis Thomison, The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions, Michigan 1993, p. 130 (text)

Trevor Schoonmaker, “Birth of the Cool,” NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, No. 22, Spring/Summer 2008, p. 29 (text)

Zoé Whitley, "For the Love of You: Barkley L. Hendricks's Reasons for Painting," in: Trevor Schoonmaker, Barkley L. Hendricks: Solid!, Durham 2008, p. 216, illustrated in color and p. 216, illustrated in color (text)

Richard J. Powell, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture, Chicago 2008, fig. 73, p. 150 (text) and p. 151, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Durham, Nasher Museum of Art and Duke University (and traveling), Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, 2008-10, fig. 2, p. 37 (text) and p. 63, illustrated in color

A.D. Amorosi, "Tributes in the picture for a portrait painter," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 18 October 2009 (text) (online)

Genevieve Hyacinthe, "Love is the Message: Barkley Hendricks’s MFSB Portrait Aesthetics," Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, No. 44, May 2019, p. 617 (text)