"RED GROOMS "CHARLES ROGERS GROOMS (Nashville, USA, 1937). "Elephant", 2001. Polychrome metal. Exemplary 2/3. Signed on the base. Provenance: Marl

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  "RED GROOMS "CHARLES ROGERS GROOMS (Nashville, USA, 1937). "Elephant", 2001. Polychrome metal. Exemplary 2/3. Signed on the base. Provenance: Marlborough Gallery. Size: 80 x 74 x 25 cm. Charles Rogers Grooms or Red Grooms is an American multimedia artist, based in New York. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and during a summer he enrolled in the school of fine arts of Hans Hofmann, the contemporary of the classics Rothko, Kooning or Kline. There he met the pioneer of experimental animation Yvonne Andersen, with whom he collaborated on several short films. His sculptures, paintings and three-dimensional models are known worldwide, and are part of 39 museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. In 2003 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Design. In the late 1950s, Grooms was exploring his artistic limits and presented a series of happenings in his New York studio. But by 1959 he shifted his trajectory towards more figurative techniques, inventing "sculpture-pictorials", such as the one presented in our auction. A mixture of sculptural installation and painting, which would eventually become his signature art. Though deeply rooted in American culture, Grooms' circus-themed work, so vibrant, with its somewhat chaotic yet engaging energy, conveys a sense of humour and an appreciation of human nature that is universally understood. Over the course of his nearly 70-year career, Grooms' work has met with mixed comparisons to William Hogarth, Honore Daumier, and Marcel Duchamp.
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