Painting attributed to Erick Lee Purkhiser aka Lux Interior up for eBay auction

From the signature, the painting appears to date from 1970, prior to Lux Interior meeting Poison Ivy and forming The Cramps.

 

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RARE ONE OF A KIND PIECE OF ARTWORK PAINTED BY "LUX INTERIOR" OF THE Band The CRAMPS, OR AS HE WAS KNOW AT THE TIME,  ERICK LEE PURKHISER

Size 37 x 29 Inches

Erick Lee Purkhiser (October 21, 1946 – February 4, 2009), better known by the stage name Lux Interior, was an American singer and a founding member of the American rock band the Cramps from 1976 until his death in 2009 at age 62

He met his wife Kristy Wallace, better known as Poison Ivy, a.k.a. Ivy Rorschach, in Sacramento in 1972, when he and a friend picked her up when she was hitchhiking. The couple founded the band after they moved from California to Ohio in 1973, and then to New York in 1975, where they soon became part of the flourishing punk scene.

The painting is a fascinating mix of eroticism and nightmare, surreal and vivid in style. It is not especially Cramps typical look– but then again, it is, if that makes sense. You might not immediately see it as the obvious work of Lux Interior, but when you know that it is , it doesn’t seem all that surprising. Lux always gravitated towards women who would bring out his inner creativity – with Ivy, of course, he found a soul mate who was as creative as he was and the pair of them built an insular, unique artistic universe together until his death in 2009.

Painting was done in 1970 (see signature detail at right), before Lux met Posion Ivy during art classes at California State University, Sacramento where the text book I believe was the infamous book "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross"  by John M. Allegro. 

When someone has such a defined and iconic public persona as the late, great Lux Interior, lead singer of The Cramps, it’s hard to remember that he didn’t come out of the womb already attached at the hip to Cramps cohort and life partner, Poison Ivy Rorschach. But Lux did indeed have a life before he became Lux – he was 30 when the band formed and although it has been barely mentioned in any Cramps biographies or his Wikipedia page, he had a previous marriage and a son, both of which were so effectively wiped out of history. This painting would have been done during that time I believe. 

Clean pre-owned condition. Signature on top of ERICK in lower right corner is the previous owners, he was a young man in his 20s when he purchased it in HOUSTON TX in the 80s. He believed he would never get rid of it, that is why he put his name on it . Times and priorities for the previous owner changed and he decided to sell the painting to me a few years ago, Ive had it ever since.

Looking for a new good home for the is one of a kind painting.

Could Be The Crown Jewel of someones CRAMPS collection

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selling as is!

"Buy It Now" price: $14,000 US or best offer. Check it out right here.