{"id":38154,"date":"2018-10-17T06:43:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=38154"},"modified":"2018-10-17T08:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:01:59","slug":"large-richard-hambleton-sold-for-150000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2018\/10\/17\/large-richard-hambleton-sold-for-150000\/","title":{"rendered":"~LARGE RICHARD HAMBLETON . . SOLD FOR $150,000 !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE SHADOWMAN . . RISES.<\/p>\n

oh, yes.
\nCONTRA GALLERY <\/a>. . just sold their large RICHARD HAMBLETON for $150,000 . . !!!<\/p>\n

LONG LIVE THE LOWER EAST SIDE of the 80s & 90s !!!<\/p>\n

LONG LIVE THE TRUE \/ REAL GRITTY !!!<\/p>\n

RICHARD HAMBLETON was mean, but so were the streets \/ he was<\/strong> the real deal.
\na unique voice (scream ?!!) that captured his time \/ let’s raise a glass to the hard-working people \/ the scramblers, the hustlers.
\nthe true underground heroes of the Lower East Side, when it was raw and . . happening.<\/p>\n

I mean, inadvertently . . he did<\/strong> provide us with shelter, and that (illegal) storefront kept us warm and, up & running, rent-free \/ for for almost 10 years – right in the heart of the action.
\nthose were<\/em> . . walk on the dark side days, and damn it he caught it \/ and that’s why his work is reverberating with a wider audience, today. he was a real ‘one-off’. he threw that rebel street art \/ right smack up against the law-of-the-jungle inner city, just before the endless waves of fine-tuned grad students descended. he made a case for the disenfranchised, and neglected.
\nthink on it: in just a decade it would be Shepard Fairey’s ‘Obey’ giant . . . looking down from the street lamps, with their reference to nascent social media, and template expression.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nRICHARD HAMBLETON, ‘Walking Woman (Beautiful)’, 1992.
\nacrylic paint, industrial paint on stretched canvas, 76 x 24 in.
\nsigned & titled . . on the back \/ it is dated on the front.
\nimage courtesy CONTRA GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nsigned & titled \/ on the back.
\nimage courtesy CONTRA GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n

a wall of . . . history in the making !!<\/p>\n

archival black & white 35mm photographs by BEN BUCHANAN, incl a young & unknown Basquiat \/ & 2<\/strong> RICHARD HAMBLETON paintings
\nthe large one in the center . . .
\njust sold for – for $150,000.
\nat CONTRA GALLERY – CHELSEA.<\/p>\n

brought to you by curator, artist, & soon-to-be filmmaker . . ALFREDO MARTINEZ.<\/p>\n

in other words:<\/strong><\/p>\n

the so-called . . ‘REAL FAKE’ \/ MARTINEZ brings you . . the ‘REAL DEAL’ \/ SHADOWMAN \/ aka LITTLE RICHARD HAMBLETON
\nbring it on – ALFREDO !! \/ LONG LIVE THE ‘REAL GRIT’ . . & HARD-CORE !!!
\nlong live – the ‘TRUE’ UNDERGROUND.<\/p>\n

‘THE SHADOWMAN MEETS THE FEMININE’ . . . is up for 2 more weeks.
\nCONTRA GALLERY – 122 W 26th ST, 5th FLOOR \/ CHELSEA \/ CHECK WITH GALLERY FOR VIEWING HRS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE SHADOWMAN . . RISES. oh, yes. CONTRA GALLERY . . just sold their large RICHARD HAMBLETON for $150,000 . . !!! LONG LIVE THE LOWER EAST SIDE of the 80s & 90s !!! LONG LIVE THE TRUE \/ REAL GRITTY !!! RICHARD HAMBLETON was mean, but so were the streets \/ he was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38154"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38168,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38154\/revisions\/38168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}