Painting by Midwest Artist, Rosemary Hornak sets auction record at $130,000
Published December 11th, 2007
FineArtPiublicity.com - On Sunday, December 2, 2007 two Rosemary Hornak paintings sold for $130,000.00 to an anonymous buyer. The two paintings, lot numbers 247 [oil on panel, titled “Perroquets Impasto Var. II”] & 248 [oil on panel, titled “Perroquets Impasto Var. I”] were sold through the California based Auction house, Auctions by the Bay, located near San Francisco.
Detroit based Artist, Rosemary Hornak is known for her unique representational abstract style of painting and drawing. She was Born in Mount Clemens, Michigan in 1951 and graduated from College For Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan in 1978. Hornak had her first New York Solo Exhibition at the East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art in 1986 and latter returned to New York in 1993 to Solo at the Clayton Liberatore Gallery in Bridgehampton, an exhibit which received strong reviews from a number of important critics including Rose Slivka.
Rosemary Hornak has been attached to the New York Art World not only professionally, but also through her older brother, Ian Hornak, who came into his own as one of the founding members of the Photorealist Movement shortly after he permanently moved to New York in 1967 where he was to maintain a studio/home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and a lavish country residence and studio in East Hampton on Long Island for the remainder of his life. Mr. Hornak worked closely with Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Fairfield Porter, Lowell Nesbitt and a number of other notable artists throughout his career. He died at age 58 in 2002 at the Southampton Hospital after suffering an aortic aneurysm.
Ms. Hornak continues to maintain a studio and residence in Detroit with her most recent solo exhibitions having been hosted in 2003 and 2004 at the Eric I. Spoutz Gallery located in the Grand Arcade of the Fisher Building in Detroit, Michigan.
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