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Lot 16: PAT DE GROOT (1930-2018) Cormorants, Portfolio of 4 Prints, 31/100, 1991, Silkscreens

Est: $1,000 USD - $1,500 USDSold:
Bakker AuctionsProvincetown, MA, USOctober 23, 2021

Item Overview

Description

PAT DE GROOT (1930-2018) Cormorants, Portfolio of 4 Prints, 31/100, 1991, Silkscreens

Dimensions

18 x 12" image, 19 x 38" sheets

Artist or Maker

Medium

Silkscreens

Date

1991

Condition Report

Fair condition, extensive foxing, please consider photos an accurate description of condition

Literature

Born in St John's Wood, London, Pat was a wartime refugee to the US. In 1940 she and her younger brother, Peter, were sent to New York by their American mother, Evie (nee Straus Weil), who had separated from their English father, Ernald Richardson, an army officer. Evie's grandfather, Isidor Straus, had owned Macy's; he and his wife, Ida, were the elderly couple who refused to leave the sinking Titanic. Evie would remarry, secondly in 1947 to George Backer, publisher of the New York Post. As a society interior decorator, Evie became design muse to Truman Capote, and styled his black and white ball, at the party of the century. After leaving the University of Pennsylvania with an English degree, Pat was in Paris by 1954, working for the Paris Review. She would cycle round to pick up manuscripts from Samuel Beckett. On a visit to Dublin, Brendan Behan hit on her. Pat was incredibly beautiful: gamine, vital, with intense brown eyes. Defying her mother, she married the abstract expressionist painter Nanno de Groot. In 1963 Pat and Nanno built their unconventional house on the beach in Provincetown, designed by her. "It rose from the mud," she told me. That Christmas, only weeks after they moved in, Nanno died of lung cancer. In the mid-1960s Pat worked as a designer for the New York publishers Farrar, Straus & Giroux, creating vivid abstract book covers. The Provincetown parties she threw in the 60s and 70s were the stuff of legend; at one, all the guests were arrested in a drugs raid. You might find anyone in her house: Nina Simone sipping tea; Elvin Jones, John Coltrane's drummer and Pat's long-term lover playing congas. By the 80s Pat had begun to work as a fine artist, painting seagulls and drawing cormorants, before finding the visual language to address the sea itself almost by painting it as nothing at all. The apparent blankness emphasized her reserved emotions; the life she had lived. In 2000, she was acclaimed by the New York Times as part Zen, part American transcendentalist, part modernist formalist. Her deceptively simple works have the quality of icons. Pat became the presiding genius of my book Rising Tide Falling Star (2017). (bio by Philip Hoare)

Notes

SLR

Payment & Shipping

Payment

Accepted forms of payment: American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Money Order / Cashiers Check, Other, Paypal, Personal Check, Visa, Wire Transfer

Shipping

SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. Please allow you to 2-3 weeks for delivery.

YOU MUST CONTACT ME TO RELEASE YOUR PIECES--they will not be taken to the shipper until you do so. Shipping is done on a first-come, first serve basis.

NO LOTS WON ONLINE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP THE DAY OF THE AUCTION. PLEASE MAKE AN APPOINTMENT for PICK UP. Invoices will be sent out day of sale after which you may contact us to make arrangements for pick up.

CONSIDER SHIPPING COSTS INTO YOUR BUDGET. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE LOOKED AT THE SIZE INCLUDING THE FRAME. PIECES UNDER GLASS WEIGH MORE THAN PIECES WITHOUT. If not picking up pieces in person, in all cases packing and shipping will be handled by an outside agent and arranged for by the purchaser. Bakker Auctions will not be responsible for damage or loss once the item has been received by the shipper. In the case of fragile articles, shipping will be undertaken at the sole discretion of the shipper.

BAKKER AUCTIONS USES MAILSPOT EXPRESS IN PROVINCETOWN (508-487-6650). Winning pieces will be hand delivered to Mailspot Express. Please note, Mailspot Express is our only local shipper. An alternative shipper, Eastham Qwik Pack & Ship of Cape Cod (508.240.1775), may be used but you must make arrangements to have the pieces transported there.

Auction Details

October 23, 2021 Fall Live Online Auction

by
Bakker Auctions
October 23, 2021, 01:00 PM EST

359 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA, 02657, US

Terms

Buyer's Premium

25.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
$0$499$25
$500$999$50
$1,000$2,999$100
$3,000$4,999$250
$5,000$9,999$500
$10,000$19,999$1,000
$20,000$49,999$2,500
$50,000+$5,000

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PACKING & SHIPPING

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YOU MUST CONTACT ME TO RELEASE YOUR PIECES--they will not be taken to the shipper until you do so. Shipping is done on a first-come, first serve basis.

NO LOTS WON ONLINE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP THE DAY OF THE AUCTION. PLEASE MAKE AN APPOINTMENT for PICK UP. Invoices will be sent out day of sale after which you may contact us to make arrangements for pick up.

CONSIDER SHIPPING COSTS INTO YOUR BUDGET. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE LOOKED AT THE SIZE INCLUDING THE FRAME. PIECES UNDER GLASS WEIGH MORE THAN PIECES WITHOUT. If not picking up pieces in person, in all cases packing and shipping will be handled by an outside agent and arranged for by the purchaser. Bakker Auctions will not be responsible for damage or loss once the item has been received by the shipper. In the case of fragile articles, shipping will be undertaken at the sole discretion of the shipper.

BAKKER AUCTIONS USES MAILSPOT EXPRESS IN PROVINCETOWN (508-487-6650). Winning pieces will be hand delivered to Mailspot Express. Please note, Mailspot Express is our only local shipper. An alternative shipper, Eastham Qwik Pack & Ship of Cape Cod (508.240.1775), may be used but you must make arrangements to have the pieces transported there.

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CONDITION

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