Orlando Quevedo "Manhattan View" painting 0

[CAMPER49]

My wife and I just returned from a cruise on RC's Harmony of the Seas.

During the cruise, we attended Park West's art auction and one of the items that we almost purchased was Orlando Quevedo's "Manhattan View" painting (yeah, I should have..).

Even though I'm Canadian and never been to Manhattan, the painting stood out for me immediately and upon closer inspection, I noticed a snippet of John Romita's art off to the left in the painting.

Does anyone know which (obviously 60's romance) comic book this came from?

[comicquant]

Awesome painting!  How can you tell its Romita?

[comicquant]

Found this:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning_Girl.  I guess the painting is by Roy Lichtenstein.  The wiki describes the paintings association with a panel from a 1962 DC comic.

[comicquant]

Found this as well:

"To create Drowning Girl, Roy Lichtenstein appropriated imagery from this Tony Abruzzo panel from “Run For Love” in Secret Hearts, a DC Comic series produced in the 1960’s."

[speedcake]

It should read "to create Drowning Girl, Roy Lichtenstein plagiarized comic book art and became famous among pretentious art world gits with zero talent of their own"

 

BUT I DIGRESS 

[Bronty]

Yeah its intended to be Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns.     He's probably not even aware of the Romita reference.

[the blob]

Would be kind of ironic is the lichtenstein estate sued this artist...

[CAMPER49]

Wow thanks guys!

I'm the one that thought it was Romita, not the art people. Now I know better.

[the blob]

Just now, CAMPER49 said:

Wow thanks guys!

I'm the one that thought it was Romita, not the art people. Now I know better.

Lichtenstein (did Warhold do a couple of these too?)  making all that money basically coloring in other peoples' art has been a bone of contention on these boards for some time now, particularly as a couple of the artists (not romita) wound up in dire straights financially later on (not that they owned the rights to the art anyway).

[the blob]

They have cajones, I'll give them credit for that. Or monumental chutzpah, one or the other.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100507/0231219332.shtml

[kav]

wow he really likes pianos, open spaces and homages:
 

[Bronty]

2 hours ago, CAMPER49 said:

Wow thanks guys!

I'm the one that thought it was Romita, not the art people. Now I know better.

what was the asking price?   Judging by the prices on the prints (seem to be close to a grand) you might have dodged a bullet not buying the original

[valiantman]

3 hours ago, kav said:

wow he really likes pianos, open spaces and homages:
 

I feel like this artist would even homage himself and paint a guy in a gallery looking at the painting above hanging on the wall.  Bonus points if the guy is also wearing a t-shirt with the same painting on it.

Edited April 4, 2018 by valiantman

[kav]

18 minutes ago, valiantman said:

I feel like this artist would even homage himself and paint a guy in a gallery looking at the painting above hanging on the wall.  Bonus points if the guy is also wearing a t-shirt with the same painting on it.

Extra bonus points if the painting is the actual painting that the painting is.

[Black_Adam]

Not sure if it is included in one of those links but the image was "borrowed" from Secret Hearts #83.

The real Drowning Girl by Lichtenstein is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For some reason it is hung in an outer hallway by the elevators instead of in an actual gallery. 

[the blob]

47 minutes ago, Black_Adam said:

Not sure if it is included in one of those links but the image was "borrowed" from Secret Hearts #83.

The real Drowning Girl by Lichtenstein is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For some reason it is hung in an outer hallway by the elevators instead of in an actual gallery. 

Book does well on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Secret-Hearts-83-Silver-Age-DC-Comics-1962-Romance/302684314701?hash=item4679641c4d:g:gdwAAOSwfXJauVVm

[vodou]

7 hours ago, CAMPER49 said:

...that we almost purchased was Orlando Quevedo's "Manhattan View" painting (yeah, I should have..)

So what was the price?

[CAMPER49]

6 hours ago, Bronty said:

what was the asking price?   Judging by the prices on the prints (seem to be close to a grand) you might have dodged a bullet not buying the original

IIRC, The reserve price was just over a grand.

[Bronty]

9 minutes ago, CAMPER49 said:

IIRC, The reserve price was just over a grand.

Were you bidding on an original or a print?    Your answer made me check the jpg, and it shows a 319/500 bottom left.

[shadroch]

Park West is generally a rip off ,although you can occasionally make a nice purchase. If you buy one of their " display' pieces, you save a lot of hassle.  You can walk off with a nicely framed copy or wait a month to get an unframed ,raw painting in the mail. Then when you go to get it framed you get sticker shock.