Featured Robert E Doney Originals

Today at a flea market there was a seller who had a lot of this and that. I bought 12 DVDs, mostly the excellent Warner Archive Collection that hasn't been issued on blu ray yet, two for a dollar. They also had these two huge drawings in absolutely filthy frames. They're each at least 16" x 20". I was expecting the seller want $20 each. I wouldn't have paid that. But, when he said $1 each, I couldn't say no.

This is a self portrait Doney did in 1974 and he had $125 price tag on the back. My thought was, why would anyone want his self portrait? This is a charcoal drawing.

This one is a watercolor titled "White Clown" and it was entered in a contest with a price tag of $485.

It's a dying flea market. But, these were a neat find.

 

He had a number of grandchildren. Surprised it didn't stay in the family.

Debra

 

Rembrandt, yes...Robert E Doney, yeah, no

 

How do we know that the artist priced the portrait himself?

Debora

 

Right. Maybe the family had a liquidation sale after he passed or some such.

We had an artist in our family back in the day and I was told later in life that family tossed his paintings in the trash. Not implying he was a prolific artist. He was actually a Monsignor in the Catholic church, but had formal instruction.