1944-2013. Born and raised in southwest Louisiana, “Cajun Country,” George Rodrigue preserved on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage — including its land, people, traditions and mythology. It was a Cajun legend, the loup-garou, that spawned his most famous series,
“I grew up feeling a strong relationship to the old things, to the old culture, and I got a stronger feeling when I went to Los Angeles to school. I really started to understand how different I was and how different my Louisiana was.”
On June 19, 2020, in Dallas, Texas, at Heritage Auction’s Modern & Contemporary Art event, a George Rodrigue Blue Dog painting broke records for the auction house and worldwide for a painting of its size. According to ArtDaily: One of the sale’s biggest surprises occurred early on, when it came […]
I’ve always approached painting knowing that my job is not to make an accurate representation of a subject–
IT’S GOT TO TRANSCEND THAT.
