Robert Nava - Heatwave: Online Auction London Wednesday, July 14, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
    Gifted by the above to the present owner

  • Catalogue Essay

    'I wanted to return to my childhood interests. I wanted to see these fabled creatures in my studio. I’m interested in a new kind of mythmaking, even though there are no real stories behind them yet. It opened up a world of imagination while preserving a childlike drive.' - Robert Nava

  • Artist Biography

    Robert Nava

    Robert Nava (b. 1985) is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Using a rough and
    free-flowing hand, Nava recreates the innocent and unlearned art of childhood. His works are
    “carefully done wrong,” subverting the rigid fundamentals of painting and conventions of
    completeness that Nava learned as an MFA student at Yale University. Nava’s paintings often
    feature imagined mythological figures and histories of the artist’s creation whose drama is
    brought to life with the frenetic energy of the artist’s brush. 

     
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Green Dress

signed, titled and dated 'Green Dress NAVA 15' on the reverse
acrylic on canvas
40.5 x 30.4 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Painted in 2015.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £32,760

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Heatwave: Online Auction

Online Auction 14 - 22 July 2021