Untitled, 1970
$4,500
American, 1922–1991
Robert Joseph
Perillat
Philosopher, teacher, and late-starting painter. Robert Perillat put down his academic career at forty-seven and spent the next two decades painting in Woodstock, Stinson Beach and Brooklyn.
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Three places, two decades
237 works in the catalogue
“It has been a long journey. No part of it do I regret and nothing of it has been wasted.”
Robert Perillat
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A philosopher who became a painter at forty-seven
Robert Perillat earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at Notre Dame and spent fifteen years as a professor and college administrator before walking away in 1969 to paint. He worked in near-poverty and largely outside the market — first in a converted goat shed in Woodstock, then in a one-room studio at Stinson Beach, and finally in an industrial loft in Brooklyn, where he produced his largest and most ambitious canvases.
He never sought gallery representation. When he did show his work, it was recognized: first prize in the juried Discoveries exhibition in New York in both 1986 and 1988, selected by Village Voice critic Peter Frank.
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