Larry Zox

Rotation Blues

1964

RAY DONARSKI (1935-1996) Swing, 1966 Oil on canvas 17 ½ x 17 ½ inches Signed, dated and inscribed verso: ‘Swing’ / Ray Donarski / 2/66 / 17 ½ x 17 ½ / For Mr. & Mrs. Passerman / New York 1966 Original frame Ray Donarski was one of a group of artists in New York known as the Bowery Boys during the early sixties. The group included Eva Hesse, Robert Mangold, Jack Youngerman, and Robert Rauschenberg among others. He is mentioned in several of art critic Lucy Lippard's articles on New York conceptual artists and Bowery Boy artists of that period. Donarski was a close friend of artist James Rosenquist. They had studied together at the Art Students League in New York. In January of 1962 Donarski helped Rosenquist set up his first solo exhibition at the Green Gallery in New York. In his book, Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art, Rosenquist recalls sitting on the floor with Donarski before opening night wondering if anyone would show up. The show sold out before it opened. When Rosenquist was broke and homeless in 1955 his friend Donarski told him he knew of a great job as a chauffeur and bartender for some very wealthy people. They went up to see them and split the job. Rosenquist took it for a year, and after a year, he gave it to Donarski. In an interview with Rosenquist he said “I lived in the lap of luxury with very little money, and was a chauffeur bopping around in a ’56 Lincoln town car and a ’56 Lincoln convertible with big fins on the car (laughs), great big fins. I did that for a year and then transferred into the International Sign Painters.” Donarski married Mary Lou Storm and had two children. He became known as the “American in Luxembourg”, dividing his time between New York and summers in Luxembourg, where he was represented by Galerie Paul Bruck and Galerie Horn. He also exhibited at the Westport Gallery...

BUDD HOPKINS (1931-2011) Untitled Abstract, 1964 Oil on paper on canvas 14 x 11 inches Signed and dated at lower right: Hopkins ‘64 Budd Hopkins was born in Wheeling, West Vi...

HENRY BOTKIN (1896-1983) Untitled, c. 1954 Oil on board 40 x 30 inches Signed at lower right: Botkin Signed verso

HENRY BOTKIN (1896-1983) Medley, 1958 Oil on paperboard on board 44 x 34 inches Signed at lower left: Botkin Signed, titled and dated verso

ZIGI BEN-HAIM (Israeli, born 1945) Lois & Morty all the way to 1201, 1991 Mixed media on aluminum 9 x 12 inches Signed at lower right: Zigi Ben-Haim Dated along right side (at botto...

ZIGI BEN-HAIM (Israeli, born 1945) Untitled, 1991 Mixed media on aluminum 36 x 48 inches Signed and dated at lower right: Zigi Ben-Haim 1991

"Limina" by Meri DeCaria, acrylic on board, 7 X 13 inches (Frame size: 12 3/4 X 18 1/4 in.), $650. "Drawing inspiration from the images and patterns of 60’s modernism, and using the...

It Is A Fearful Thing, acrylic on museum board, 8.5 x 9.5 inches (Framed size: 17 x 16 inches), $650 Tom Kass was born on the East Coast to a father who was ...

Untitled, 2020 Acrylic on hardboard 10 x 10 in De Volder’s incursions into the nature of drawing, and into the possibilities of dark and light, led him to explore color and painting...

Untitled, 2020 Acrylic on hardboard 12 x 12 in De Volder’s incursions into the nature of drawing, and into the possibilities of dark and light, led him to explore color and painting...

Untitled, 2020 Acrylic on hardboard 12 x 12 in De Volder’s incursions into the nature of drawing, and into the possibilities of dark and light, led him to explore color and painting...

Untitled, 2020 Acrylic on hardboard 11 x 14 in De Volder’s incursions into the nature of drawing, and into the possibilities of dark and light, led him to explore color and painting...