Michael Luchs Painting Untitled #142 1981 Rabbit Framed Mixed Media Signature Form - Rabbit Paint Tape on Paint Start Price USD 5,500.00 Current Price USD 5,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 15, 2008 End Time Monday, December 15, 2008 Location Southfield, MI See more about 'Michael Luchs Painting Untitled #142 1981 Rabbit Framed' Description Michael Luchs Painting "Untitled" #142 1981  Mixed Media Signature Form - Rabbit Paint Tape on Paint Artist: Michael Luchs Title: Untitled #142 Medium: Paint/tape on paper Year: 1981 Dimensions: H. 35 3/4 x 47 1/2 Framed dimensions: 41 x 53 About the artist Michael Luchs'  signature form is a rabbit.  He uses mixed-media for his paintings often with duct tape, wire and bullet holes.    Luchs was a key figure in the development of the Detroit Avant-Garde that is named after the Cass Corridor-One of the down and out areas of the city devastated by the 1967 riots.  In the 1960's and 1970's The Cass Corridor Art of Luchs, Gordon Newton, James Chatelain, Ellen Phelan, and others had a tough, sometimes violent, almost always experimental quality that reflected the Detroit inner city and made its Avant-Garde an inspiration for new art throughout the mid west. Provenance and history of piece I am the original owner.  This piece was purchased December 3, 1981 from Jackie Feigenson, The Feigenson Gallery 310 Fisher Building, Detroit, MI 48202.  I believe the gallery is no longer there.  All these pieces were shown at the DIA: Michael Luchs and Gilda Snowden exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts September 22 through November 18, 1990 in the Michigan Artists Gallery.  More recently his art was shown July 27, 2007 at the Oscarsson Hood Gallery, 41 West 57th street, New York, New York and November-December 2005 at the David Klein gallery, 163 Townsend, Birmingham, Michigan 48009. Please email me with any questions or concerns.  Shipping, handling, and insurance is through UPS. Please check out my feedback. Thank you for looking in at my auctions! Place a Bid!