Lot 4
Vendetta
Sold
$3,206,000
Est $2,500,000 - $3,500,000
Live Auction
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
Barkley L. Hendricks
Size
35 7/8 x 48 in. (91.1 x 121.9 cm)
Description

Medium
oil, acrylic and Magna on canvas
Signature
Painted in 1977.
Provenance
ACA Galleries, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007
Literature
The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience, exh. cat., Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, New London, Connecticut, 2001, pp. 6, 8 (illustrated, p. 6) Richard J. Powell, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture, Chicago, 2008, no. 78, pp. 156, 166, 169, 219, 270, 275 (illustrated, p. 156) Amy White, “Barkley L. Hendricks’ Nasher show: Art history, honored and challenged,” INDY Week, March 5, 2008, online Araceli Cruz, “Cool Cat,” The Village Voice, November 5, 2008, online Kelly Klaasmeyer, “The Art of Cool,” HoustonPress, March 10, 2010, online “At Home in New London with Artist Barkley Hendricks,” Hartford Courant, April 30, 2010, online Trevor Schoonmaker, “Barkley L. Hendricks: Reverberations,” Fresh Paint, 2012, p. 98 Robin Cembalest, “Reinventing the African American Portrait,” ARTnews, August 1, 2013, online (dated 1978) Jared Bowen, “With his camera, artist Barkley L. Hendricks brought his world view into focus,” GBH. Boston Public Radio, March 16, 2022, online Jared Bowen, “New exhibit chronicles work of late painter Barkley Hendricks and his use of the camera,” PBS News Hour, May 18, 2022, online Zoé Whitley, ed., Barkley L. Hendricks: Solid!, Milan, 2023, p. 79 (illustrated; dated 1978) Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick, exh. cat., The Frick Collection, New York, 2023, fig. 83, pp. 108-109, 158 (installation view in the artist’s studio illustrated, p. 109)
Exhibited
Durham, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, February 7, 2008–April 18, 2010, no. 35, pp. 38-39, 41, 85, 131 (detail illustrated, p. 38; Vendetta with the present work in the artist’s studio illustrated, p. 39; illustrated, p. 85)