428
West 23rd Street
Peter Bocour
Peter Bocour (1947-2011) died of complications from a lengthy battle with leukemia. Peter grew up in the Greenwich Village art scene of the 1950’s and 1960’s. His father, Leonard Bocour, was the founding partner of Bocour Artists Colors. As a child, he spent a great deal of time in his father’s paint factory, particularly enjoying the ribbons of paint emerging from the paint guns and filling oil, watercolor and acrylic tubes sold under the names Bocour, Bellini and Aquatec. He told stories of his father giving tails of paint from the tube guns to artists such as Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the days before they were successful and receiving paintings by them in thanks. Peter himself studied art, receiving his undergraduate degree from New York University and his MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. He also studied painting at the Skowhegen School and at the New York Studio School. Bocour was an abstract artist who loved to use color and hated to draw, leading to his expressive visual vocabulary. He showed professionally from 1977 through 2008 at galleries in Chelsea and in New Jersey.
He was commissioned by City University of New York for four painting which hang in the lobby of the CCNY Graduate Center.
“No. 6 Drawing” Media: Colored pencil, watercolor pencil and pastel on paper Image Size: 16” x 12”, matted and framed 12” x 18” Asking Price: $500 |
“Siren” Media: Acrylic on canvas Image Size: 46” x 46” Asking Price: $4,000 |
“Green” Media: Acrylic on canvas Image Size: 46” x 46” Asking Price: $4,000 |
“Man O’ War” Media: Acrylic on canvas Image Size: 46” x 46” Asking Price: $4,000 |
“Monkey Mayhem” Media: Acrylic on canvas Image Size: 46” x 46” Asking Price: $4,000 |
“No. 1” Media: Acrylic on canvas Image Size: 34” x 34” Asking Price: $3,000 |
“Blur” Media: Acrylic on canvas Image Size: 34” x 34” Asking Price: $3,000 |
“No. 2 Drawing” Media: Colored pencil, watercolor pencil and pastel on paper Image Size: 16” x 12” Asking Price: $500 |
“Orange” Media: Acrylic on canvas Image Size: 46” x 46” Asking Price: $4,000 |
“No. 4” Media: Acrylic on canvas Image Size: 34” x 34” Asking Price: $3,000 |