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Orville Bulman Original Oil on Board "La Barque Pouic" 8x10

Lot #1
Item: 61f9-1891837

Sauk Rapids, MN

This Lot is:

Closed

Wed, Jul 11, 2018 7:00pm CDT

High Bidder: #181080

Current Bid:

$3,015.00

Next Required Bid: $3,090.00

Reserve Not Met

Category: Household & Estate > Artwork

Location / Contact:

1 6th Ave N, Sauk Rapids, MN 56379

Phone: 952-261-4942

Lot Description:

The gem of the sale is an original listed artist Orville Bulman oil on board entitled "La Barque Pouic" (Picnic on a Boat). The painting measures 8x10 and is in the original frame and has the original golden colored title tag. Three recent Bulman's sold at Heritage Auction for $40625, $18750, and $9072. This is one of his popular Haitian inspired works and is dated to around the late 60's or early 70's. Signed in the bottom right hand corner.

Estimate: $6,000 - $12,000+

Biography
Orville Bulman, a self-taught mid-twentieth century modern artist, was born in 1904 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A year later his father, Elvah O. Bulman, invented what was to become a long line of ingenious products, a twine holder and dispenser. Subsequently, Elvah (or E. O. as he was called) continued to create dispensers and cutters for virtually all goods that could be rolled up. Before long, the Bulman Paper Cutter became de rigueur for any self-respecting grocery or dry goods establishment in the early 1900s. Bulman was expected to carry on the hugely successful family business, which dutifully, he did. After graduating from Grand Rapids Central High School, however, he traveled to Chicago for one year to work as a newspaper cartoonist before entering the business world.
While helping his father run the company, Bulman's true artistic calling was too loud for him to ignore. After devoting himself to the corporation in the twenties and thirties, he exhibited at New York's Society of Independent Artists in 1937 and for a short time around 1948 exhibited with the Woodstock Art Colony. In the late 1940s he was painting New York City social realist paintings as well as dark, haunting pictures of old barns and churches.
Bulman's life in Palm Beach, Florida, began around 1946 when he, after sustaining recurring injuries to his neck, began to spend the winters in that small affluent town. Although he was in traction intermittently for eight years, he was still able to paint, and he took advantage of being away from the company to devote himself to his art. He adopted Palm Beach as his second home, exhibited frequent one-man shows at the renowned Worth Avenue Gallery, and traveled extensively throughout Florida, Louisiana and Alabama to paint African-American inspired genre scenes. These poignant paintings of the segregated south (especially the Florida scenes) brought national attention to his art.
During the early 1950s, while painting regionalist scenes of American country and southern life, Bulman happened to see pictures of Haiti and admired the island’s style, verve and gracefully trimmed houses with lacy appliqué carved wood. Painting seven imaginative works inspired by photographs, he subsequently visited Haiti for the first time in March of 1952, and traveled to other Caribbean islands during the 1950s as well. Bulman loved Haiti and its people and felt that they were the best inspiration for further work. He lived with the islanders in the rustic hills for a time and felt like he was a part of their village, deeply experiencing their religion, humor and lifestyle and respecting their way of life far better than other Americans. The Haitians loved his art and encouraged him to continue creating his whimsical scenes of elegant women and men and playful children.
The inspiration of Bulman's "jungle paintings" of the 1960s and '70s was the work of Henri Rousseau, old master paintings, along with the lush foliage and tropical scenery of his Manalapan, Florida home. The islanders in Bulman's world became princesses, duchesses, kings and queens.
By 1977, Bulman had exhibited in 41 one-man shows and sold over 2,000 paintings. He died on January 4, 1978.
In his own words, Bulman’s art was created because, “When I first started to paint years ago, there was so much sadness, strife and outright mayhem in work back then, that I decided to bring, if I could, some laughter into painting.” In the present day we remain sorely in need of Bulman’s fabulous art. Indeed, in today's stressful and brutal world, his paintings raise our spirits and the true ambition of the artist remains wholly realized: "To bring more color and happiness to more patrons than any artist before me."
©Deborah C. Pollack

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Bid History

9 Bid(s)

Bidder	Placed	High Bid
181080	Jul 11 06:57pm	$3,015.00
289622	Jul 10 06:49pm	$2,750.00
116279	Jul 10 05:57pm	$2,325.00
289622	Jul 09 08:22am	$2,250.00
116279	Jul 03 04:58pm	$1,700.00
289622	Jul 01 11:04am	$1,550.00
116279	Jun 29 10:27pm	$1,375.00
289622	Jun 27 08:10pm	$1,200.00
275419	Jun 26 07:56pm	$15.00