$24,000
Acrylics on fiberglass, signed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. This Gibson Guitar sculpture includes a photograph of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez with the guitar 10 by 3 1/2 feet George Yepes was one of the more prolific painters in the Chicano Mural Movement of the late 70s. Yepes gained his early reputation as a ferocious painter when he became an instrumental partner in the top mural groups of East L.A. until he decided that group painting wasn't suited to his temperament or pace. With grand scale and furious momentum Yepes has painted over 800,000 square feet of eloquent social, historical, and sacred images onto the facades of everything from churches, hospitals and freeway overpasses to album covers. His 1988 album cover for Los Lobos titled “La Pistola y el Corazon” has won numerous awards, and is in many museum collections. “La Pistola y El Corazon” is also the image that George Yepes has painted onto the 10-foot-tall Gibson Les Paul guitar for the 2006-7 Austin GuitarTown Project. "George Yepes is the rarest of talents. I own several of his paintings, and whenever someone walks in and sees them for the first time, I have to stand close so I can catch their jaws before they slam into the ground. George's work grabs you by the lapels and makes you feel as if you're discovering art for the first time. He's a master painter in the best sense, the art comes through him not from him. That is rare." Robert Rodriguez, Director, Austin, Texas Photos
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2007-10-17
