Robert P. Gordy (1933 to 1986)
By the mid-1960s, Robert Gordy had developed his individual style of painting, which combines repetitive images and patterns with flat colors. These engaging and often amusing and erotic paintings earned the New Orleans artist national attention and acclaim. In 1967, Gordy was awarded an Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and exhibited in Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. The painting “Urns, Lemons and Female Figures” is an important work from this period and was selected for the first major retrospective of Gordy’s work after his untimely death from AIDS.
Information courtesy of Neal Auction Company, December 2007.