Purvis Young
(American, 1943-2010)
Funeral Procession
Sale 1132 - Palm Beach Fine Art, Including Outsider Art from the Collection of Edith S. Peiser, Boca Raton, Florida
Feb 22, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Palm Beach
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$3,000 -
5,000
Lot Description
Purvis Young
(American, 1943-2010)
Funeral Procession
oil on plywood
signed Young (upper right)
20 3/4 x 62 inches.
Property from the Collection of Edith S. Peiser, Boca Raton, Florida
"I paint funeras and graveyards because I see a lot of my friends pass. I been to a lot of funerals. I paint angels coming down to bless the peoples; guys carrying caskets sometimes; angel sitting on top of the caskets. Death to the people. Good people become angels. I just paint good people. I don't know what happens to the bad ones. Sometimes when angels have come down to try to tell bad peoples what to do, they have hung the angels." (Interviews with Purvis Young by William Arnett and Larry Clemons in 1994 and 1995, https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/purvis-young)
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