Katze. 1986.
Collage with acrylic.
Ca. 79.5 x 89 cm (31.2 x 35 in).
[KA].

• Singular on the auction market.
• The artist made this work exclusively for a collector during a stay in Berlin.
• Hambleton starts his career as an anonymous painter on the streets of New York, and eventually became a source of inspiration for Banksy.
• His works are exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin.
Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (1989, inherited from the above).

"[The artist's] success was almost immediate. Hambleton was the first street artist to be embraced by the established New York gallery scene, with Keith Haring and Basquiat following in his wake. He exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984 and 1985, and at the Venice Biennale in 1984 and 1988, where he painted 'Shadowmen' across Venice. A subsequent tour of Europe brought his figures to the streets of Paris, Rome, and London. He also travelled to Berlin to paint 17 life-size 'Shadowmen' on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall, returning a year later to paint more on the western side. [..] Andy Warhol repeatedly asked Hambleton to paint his portrait, and Hambleton, who thought of them as equals, always turned him down."
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"Hambleton is being posthumously hailed for his achievements, and rightly cited as a precursor to the conceptual approaches of contemporary street artists like Banksy (who has publicly nodded to the inspiration) and French muralists JR and Blek le Rat."
Both quoted from: Tom Seymour, The Tumultuous, Tragic Life of Street Art Pioneer Richard Hambleton, Artsy, 2018.

In good condition. Collage intentionally made with torn edges and uneven sheet edges.