Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

274 c RENÉ RICARD (1946-2014) Every Minute Somewhere in the World Parents are Finding their Children in Drag . Acrylic and felt-tip pen and ink on canvas. 9 3 / 4 x7 3 / 4 inches; 24 1 / 2 x19 1 / 2 cm. Signed in light pink acrylic, upper right recto. Circa 2010. [2,000/3,000] In one of the obituaries written for Ricard, the artist is described as “a Renaissance man for the cocaine age.” A defining figure of the Andy Warhol’s Factory, his oeuvre was a psychedelic interdisciplinary experiment in the elevation of text to art. He moved to New York City at the age of 18 after seeing a Warhol painting, and quickly became a background yet instrumental figure in the Pop Art Movement. With his connections, he worked with artists and arbiters of taste such as Allen Ginsberg and Jean Michel Basquiat, whose career he helped to launch with a seminal essay published in ArtForum entitled The Radiant Child , 1981. Among the other artists who were elevated by Ricard’s attentions were Brice Marden, Francesco Clemente, Keith Haring and Julian Schnabel. END OF SALE