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RICHARD ESTES (B. 1932)
RICHARD ESTES (B. 1932)
RICHARD ESTES (B. 1932)
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RICHARD ESTES (B. 1932)

Gifts of Nature

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RICHARD ESTES (B. 1932)
Gifts of Nature
signed and dated 'ESTES 78' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 x 80 in. (91.4 x 203.2 cm.)
Painted in 1978.
Provenance
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1978
Literature
J. M. White, "At the Hirshhorn -- in Hyper-Realism Lies the Beauty," The Washington Post, 25 January 1979.
L. Meisel, Richard Estes: The Complete Paintings 1966-1985, New York, 1986, n.p., no. 129 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape, January-April 1979.
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Richard Estes/A Decade: 1973-83, April 1983, n.p., no. 6 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

"In many ways, Estes' New York is an ideal city: always fall or always spring, no slush or grime. And everything is in miraculous, preternatural focus. 'There are certain things that have to be fuzzy that are naturally fuzzy,' he explained to me when we were talking about his paintings. 'The eye sees like that. When I look at things, some are out of focus. But I don't like to have some things out of focus and others in focus because it makes very specific what you are supposed to look at, and I try to avoid saying that. I want you to look at all. Everything is in focus."
­ —J. Perreault, "Richard Estes," Richard Estes: The Complete Paintings 1966-1985, New York, 1986, pp. 10-11.

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