Kornfeld · Lot 630
Untitled, Crosses (Blue, Black, Red and Gold)
Acrylic on canvas
Catalogue period : 2025-09-11
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 40000
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Robert Longo
Born : 1953Documented citizenships : United States
American artist Robert Longo, born in 1953, develops a body of work that moves from drawing to cinema and explores images in both their intensity and their duration. After studying at Buffalo State College, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts there. In 1977, he moved to New York with Cindy Sherman and worked as a studio assistant to Vito Acconci and Dennis Oppenheim. His first solo exhibition, in 1981, presented drawings from the Men in the Cities series. His work was subsequently shown at documenta in Kassel in 1982 and 1987, at the Whitney Biennial in 1983 and 2004, and at the Venice Biennale in 1997.
In his charcoal drawings, Longo draws on the chiaroscuro of the Old Masters and constructs contrasts of light and shadow. He sets the instantaneous capture of photography against the extended time of drawing, which can take months. Several series depict phenomena at the height of their unfolding: explosions, breaking waves, sharks emerging from the water or roses in bloom. Since 2015, he has also made drawings based on conservation X-rays of old works, including A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet, seeking what the image reveals beyond its surface. His practice also extends to cinema: in 1995, he directed the cyberpunk science-fiction film Johnny Mnemonic. The work Ohne Titel (Joe), dated 1981–1991 and executed in charcoal, graphite and acrylic on paper, depicts, according to the sale notice, the musician Joe Hannan, a friend of Longo and fellow player in the punk band Menthol Wars.
This profile brings together identity references for Robert Longo and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Documented auction references
10auction references
5auction houses
7documented results with prices
Kornfeld · Germann · Lempertz · Genève Enchères · Piguet
References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.
Works recorded at auction
Kornfeld · Lot 111
Untitled (Shark 7)
Charcoal drawing on paper
Catalogue period : 2020-09-18
Published result : 340000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 350000
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Untitled (Joe)
Acrylic on paper
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel (Joe)
Acryl auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2018-06-15
Published result : 200000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 250000
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Lempertz · Lot 837
Ohne Titel (Red Cross on White)
Acryl auf Zeitungspapier
Auction date : 2018-06-02
Published result : 3968 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 3000
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Lempertz · Lot 838
Black Cross on White
Acryl auf Zeitungspapier
Auction date : 2018-06-02
Published result : 5332 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 3000
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Germann
Study for D. Butkus, 2013
Tusche und Kohle auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Germann
Study of Massachusetts, 2014
Tusche und Kohle auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Genève Enchères · Lot 91
Cross 7
Mixed media on paper
Original catalogue wording
Cross 7
technique mixte sur papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 10000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 10000–15000
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Piguet
"Cross 7"
Mixed media on paper
Original catalogue wording
"Cross 7"
technique mixte sur papier
Catalogue period : 2024-12-11
Published result : 8000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 10000–15000
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Piguet
Original title: Site point 1971-1975,
crayon de graphite sur papier
Original catalogue wording
Site point 1971-1975,
crayon de graphite sur papier
Catalogue period : 2024-12-11
Published result : 8000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 8000–12000
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- Reference record
- ARTIC · Reference link only; institutional text and images are not reproduced.
- LoC · Public domain (id.loc.gov authority metadata; link only)
- MoMA · CC0
- NDL · NDL Terms of Use (source attribution)
- TOSCANA-CULTURA · Link only; descriptive content not reproduced; no open licence asserted.
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