3 days LeftOAB AuctionsPurvis Young Large Original Painting Signed Modern Figurative Outsider Art$1,000
Oct 06, 2024Great Estates Auctioneers & AppraisersPURVIS YOUNG - FOLK ART CROSS & FIGURES PAINTING$400
Purvis Young new world auction record set with $437K sale at AkibaDANIA BEACH, Fla. — Eclipsing all previous prices for the artist, a large-scale prime-period work by Purvis Young (1943-2010) sold for a remarkable $350,000 ($437,500 with buyer’s premium) at Akiba Galleries on December 6. Estimated at up to $10,000, the 1974 painting by the Florida Outsider artist was competed for by eight phone and internet […]
Purvis Young work on view at Auburn University museum through Dec.FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. – The estate of Larry T. Clemons announced a Purvis Young painting recently donated to the Bernard & Shirley Kinsey Foundation for Arts & Education is now on display at Auburn University as part of the Kinsey African American Art & History Collection exhibit at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine […]
Slotin returns with Self Taught Art Masterpieces sale April 27-28BUFORD, Ga. – Slotin Folk Art, the leaders in outsider art, return Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28 with Self Taught Art Masterpieces, a two-day sale featuring more than 730 lots of handmade pieces from both major names and obscure or unidentified American artists. The catalogs are now available for review and bidding at […]
Purvis Young’s ‘Angels Free Us’ leads our five lots to watchPurvis Young, ‘Angels Free Us’ DANIA BEACH, Fla. – Just months after achieving a massive new auction record for Purvis Young (1943-2010), Akiba Galleries is offering another large-scale work by the African American Outsider artist. The monumental mixed media on plywood painting from the 1990s is estimated at $10,000-$30,000 on Tuesday, April 2. Young, who […]