Lot 39: Outsider Artist Larry John Palsson Painting, 1980s

Name: Outsider Artist Larry John Palsson Painting, 1980s
Brand: Artemis Gallery
SKU: 64445e9864
Price: 1200 USD

Est: $2,400 USD - $3,600 USDPassed

Artemis GalleryLouisville, CO, USSeptember 02, 2021

Item Overview

Description

Larry John Palsson (American, 1948-2010). "Isometric View" acrylic on cardstock, ca. 1980s. A mesmerizing hard-edged abstraction painting by self-taught Seattle-born artist Larry John Palsson. The composition presents a marvelous matrix of geometric forms that play with the eye in a manner of optical illusion. In addition to this clever design, the color palette is striking, comprised of several shades of blue (royal, aqua, azure, and sky), burgundy, vermilion, petal pink, forest green, dove grey, lemon yellow, violet, black, and white hues - and Palsson's approach resonates with early modernist movements such as Cubism and Futurism as well as post-Abstract Expressionist movements like Pop Art. Size of painting: 8.375" L x 10.875" W (21.3 cm x 27.6 cm) Size of frame: 15.2" L x 19.2" W (38.6 cm x 48.8 cm)

Larry John Palsson spent his life in Seattle. Palsson was thought to be autistic, and was oftentimes described as a recluse. Although Palsson dreamed of becoming an engineer, he channeled his creativity toward his art - creating hundreds of paintings, many painted on ordinary household materials such as cereal boxes, frozen food cartons, and grocery store paper bags. According to the J Compton Gallery, "The paintings are examples of the artists resourcefulness, innate sense of color and conceptual dexterity with geometric forms."

To learn more about this remarkable artist, please read the article "An Unexpected Modernist" by New York-based Senior Editor Edward M. Gomez in Raw Visions Magazine (April 2016 issue - volume 89). Raw Visions is the only international journal devoted to outsider art. According to Gomez, "Palsson's abstract compositions are made up of geometric forms whose hard edged outlines and modeling free flatness share affinities with the various kinds of geometric abstraction that flourished both before and after the eruption of gestural Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s and 1950s. They also bring to mind the reductivist forms and bold palettes of the 1960s era Pop Art. Sometimes his neatly painted shapes depict or seem to allude to familiar subjects stars, eggs, phalluses, stairsteps, needles or human faces." Gomez also points to Texas-based art dealer Jean Compton (of J. Compton Gallery) as playing a valuable role in introducing Larry John Palsson to the art world. According to the J. Compton Gallery, "At the time of his death, he (Larry John Palsson) was an unknown artist with a secret portfolio a secret shared by few of hundreds of paintings, presumably his life's work. Raw Visions Magazine is dedicated to the enigma, the unexpected, the iconoclast. And as their article suggests and his paintings confirm, Larry Palsson was exactly that. His was a life filled with an outsider's raw vision, a maverick's raw wisdom and a self-taught artist's raw talents and joy."

Larry John Palsson's art has been exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair in New York (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019); Objects of Art Show 2013 in Santa Fe, New Mexico (each year this show hosts an exhibition of a particular artist or genre and 2013 was Larry's year); 2014 Kim Bacon's LA Art Show; 2014 Fort Worth Show of Antiques & Art; Heart of Country Antique Show in Nashville, Tennessee; Midwest Antique Show in Cedar Rapids, Michigan; and Tower Antiques Show in Dallas, Texas (2015, 2016, 2017) .

Larry John Palsson's work has also been featured in the Forbes magazine article, "Hot Market: The Outsider Art Fair Opens in New York" by Ann Binlot (January 28, 2015) AND Architectural Digest's "Preview works from New York's Outsider Art Fair" by Hannah Martin (December 31, 2014) who wrote, "Palsson's works were discovered in a Seattle estate sale in 2011. Though he was severely autistic, he dreamed of being an engineer, and while living at home with his widowed mother, he created a huge body of drawings and handmade sculptures."

Provenance: J Compton Gallery, Wimberley, Texas, USA

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#167215

Artist or Maker

Larry John Palsson

Condition Report

Painting has not been examined outside the frame but appears to be excellent. Frame is also excellent and ready to display. J Compton Gallery label on the verso.

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Auction Details

Summer Art Auction | Fine | Folk | Fun

Artemis Gallery

September 02, 2021, 10:00 AM MST

686 S. Taylor Ave., #108, Louisville, CO, 80027, US

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