Amsterdam Diner

Details

Ralph Goings (b. 1928)
Amsterdam Diner
signed and dated 'GOINGS 80' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Ralph Goings 1980 AMSTERDAM DINER' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
43 7/8 x 59 3/4 in. (111.4 x 151.7 cm.)
Painted in 1980.

Provenance

OK Harris, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Oakland Museum, Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, September 1981-July 1982, no. 55.

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Lot Essay

“American Photo-Realist Ralph Goings translates his photographic images to canvas with exquisite technical precision, holding his viewer rapt with the effectiveness of his illusion. Flawlessly blending his brushstrokes into velvety-smooth pictorial surfaces, Goings breathes fresh life into his diverse, quintessentially American subject matter, which encompasses air-stream trailers, roadside food stands, still lifes of condiments, and his most popular of all-the pick-up truck. These straightforward images satiate an impulse described by Linda Chase as ‘a desire to revalue what we as a culture find easiest to dismiss.’” (L. Chase, Ralph Goings, New York, 1988, p. 9).

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