Robert Nava - What Now?: Online Auction Hong Kong Thursday, February 2, 2023 | Phillips
  • “I wanted to return to my childhood interests. I wanted to see these fabled creatures in my studio. I’m interested in a new kind of mythmaking, even though there are no real stories behind them yet. It opened up a world of imagination while preserving a childlike drive.”

    —— Robert Nava

    • Provenance

      Sorry We're Closed, Brussels
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Artist Biography

      Robert Nava

      Robert Nava (b. 1985) is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Using a rough and
      free-flowing hand, Nava recreates the innocent and unlearned art of childhood. His works are
      “carefully done wrong,” subverting the rigid fundamentals of painting and conventions of
      completeness that Nava learned as an MFA student at Yale University. Nava’s paintings often
      feature imagined mythological figures and histories of the artist’s creation whose drama is
      brought to life with the frenetic energy of the artist’s brush. 

       
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Untitled

signed and dated 'Nava 18' lower right
mixed media on paper
20.7 x 28 cm. (8 1/8 x 11 in.)
Executed in 2018.

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Estimate
HK$40,000 - 60,000 
€4,700-7,100
$5,100-7,700

Sold for HK$75,600

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