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Robert Colescott

Robert Colescott

1925–2009
WA-00003792
PaintingSurrealism
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
10
Works in Collection
40
Assets Indexed
17
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph
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Authority Records (2)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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No image
The Artist as Adversary
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971

Field Verification (7 fields)

4 cross-verified · 3 single-source
  • Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
  • Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
  • Death yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
  • DeceasedWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
  • NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
  • BiographyWikipedia + Ai Generated+1· 88%
  • LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%

Source Registry (4)

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Robert Colescott yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement
Surrealism
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
12 in graph
Institutional

Museum Collections

Canonical record

Artworks (10)

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Artwork sources (3)

10 published of 11 catalogued · 1 with image
  • The Met
    7 published
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    3 published
  • + 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)

3 entries · 1 sources
  • Artists' Impressions
    1992 · Cleveland · 1 prov
    Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
  • Artists' Impressions: Drive
    1989 · Cleveland · 1 prov
    Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
  • Tea for Two (The Collector)
    1975 · Cleveland · 1 prov
    Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Record

Images

28 assets
Artsy artwork: Bathers (1984)
Artsy
Artsy artwork: Ham (1999)
Artsy
Artsy artwork: Tap (1996)
Artsy
Artsy artwork: Pontchartrain (1997)
Artsy
Artsy artwork: Mom (1982)
Artsy
Artsy artwork: TAP (1996)
Artsy
Artsy artwork: Robert Colescott Semaphore gallery 1980 (announcement) (1980)
Artsy
Artsy artist portrait
Artsy
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Relationships

4
Movements1
Surrealism
Collections3
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtCleveland Museum of ArtChristie's
Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Manhattan, United States
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction
Background

Education

University of California, Berkeley
Visual Arts
Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group ExhibitionThe Artist as Adversary
New York · 1971