Alvin Hollingsworth
Untitled: Street Art - Graffiti Art Before Basquiat - African American, ca. 1976
Oil paint, Metal Mesh, Wood, Mixed Media, Glue, Fiberboard
36 × 48 × 4 in / 91.4 × 121.9 × 10.2 cm
$ 50,000.00
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Sometimes, the most celebrated artists are not the most original. Such is the case with Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for bringing into mainstream abstract yet representational street art that incorporated graffiti,...
Sometimes, the most celebrated artists are not the most original. Such is the case with Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for bringing into mainstream abstract yet representational street art that incorporated graffiti, black identity, found objects. Alvin C. Hollingsworth proceeds him. He was a New York-based African-American artist and Spiral Group member. In the mid 1970's, Hollingsworth was widely exhibited in such mainstream New York galleries as the Allan Stone Gallery and Terry Dintenfas Gallery was doing what we call today "Street Art". Untitled, circa 1976, exhibits many characteristics that made Basquiat one of the world's most famous and expensive artists, except Hollingsworth did it before Basquiat. It is abstract yet representational. It has an urban-inspired mixed-media approach, and it formed of found materials and non-traditional materials adorned with graffiti like lettering and unexpected forms painting that reflect that type found on New York subways in the 70's. Untitled may have been exhibited at the Allan Stone Gallery in 1977. Signed lower left.