Auction/Bargain
Behold #HenryTaylor The Young, the Brave, Bobby Hutton R.I.P....
TU-ChristiesBehold #HenryTaylor The Young, the Brave, Bobby Hutton R.I.P. Oakland, California. 2007. This painting is a major highlight of #100xHandpicked artists selected by the #SaatchiGallery in New York on 22 March. Taylor’s portrait of slain Black Panther Bobby Hutton, murdered by cops as a teenager in 1968, is a powerful elegy for a young man whose unjust killing galvanized the Civil Rights movement. Taylor has effaced Hutton’s features and renders his shirt with thick yellow impasto. The painterly figure contrasts strikingly against the flat charcoal gray background, where fragments of an American flag are scratched into a decaying wall. Come see it in person - we’re open today until 5pm!
Henry Taylor (b. 1958)
“The Young, the Brave, Bobby Hutton” R.I.P. Oakland, California, 2007
Estimate: $35,000 - $45,000 (at Christie’s)
