My Painting is Tomorrow’s Painting. Watch and See: Bess in The Limelight as 40 Works Go on Sale to Benefit Anderson Cancer Center
Christie’s is selling off forty paintings by Forrest Bess, legendary Texas fish-camp hermit and symbolist painter to benefit the UT’s MD Anderson Cancer Center in a private sale running from March 1-April 3, 2012. Bess has been an underground favorite for years, but his rare, cryptic small scale works are suddenly getting some limelight as [...]
Forrest Bess Appraised on PBS, Again Boyd’s Blog Scoops GT Newswire
A recent segment of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow featured a painting by Texas most insider outsider artist, Forrest Bess. The owner, an acquaintance of Bess’ during his fish-camp years, got the piece as a wedding present, and recounts several interesting anecdotes about Bess before being stunned by the whopping $75,000 guestimate of the [...]
Forrest Bess 100 Years at Kirk Hopper
So, remember how a few weeks ago I wrote about how Dallas galleries need to mount more shows with: ”contemporary work by a handful of emerging and established artists under the umbrella of a theme, in relation to older works of art or some other object(s), also on view.” Well, Liliana Bloch from Kirk Hopper Fine [...]