Roy Newell - The Forgotten Abstract Expressionist

A friend of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and other great contemporary artists, Roy Newell is firmly rooted in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, but his name is largely unknown today. Ahead of Sotheby’s selling exhibition titled 'Roy Newell: Works from the Archive’ open from 5 May 2017 to 9 June 2017 in New York, Artist and friend Richard Dupont discusses Newell’s complex process.

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[denisceballos]

You give a good snapshot of Roy Newell, a NYC character, unique guy. His paintings are beautiful - especially the colors.

[internationalicon]

I know Sotheby’s is just ginning up an audience, priming pocketbooks for auctions, but still it’s great to get this insight into a relatively unknown, and very much under appreciated painter’s work.

[conniehubbell]

I love this work. It's so cheerful and bright!

[abstractbybrian]

This is great and just solved my problems for small paintings. They really do need to go hard edged shapes.

[Joel-npvl]

That's awesome be true to yourself as an artist

[Unfunny_Username_]

5:05 - the more slanted compositions stand out for me

[mikeroth]

Who did the blue paintings on the walls in the background?

[stimpyfeelinit]

"We've got a shit tonne of these garbage artworks, lets use our brandname to pump up the price."

lmao