Day 1: Folk Art, Outsider & Self-Taught. Day 2: Two Private Native American Collections with Select Additions
Wed, Mar 11, 2026 10:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 107
Jimmy Descant - Delux Flit
Estimate: $150 - $250
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $200 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
| $1,000,000 | $50,000 |
Jimmy Descant - 'Delux Flit' Rocket (2001). Glass light fixture cover, metal thermos bottle, glass, ESSO flit bug sprayers, found objects assemblage.
H 11-1/4 in. L 17-1/2 in.
Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist in 2001. Exhibited in Oct. 2010, at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.
"As a self-taught assemblage artist growing up in New Orleans, I started my path with vintage vacuum cleaner rocketship sculptures in 1996, after 15 years in the music business as a roadie. I progressed to actual political/social statements in my futuristic art, and in visions of the West that I love after moving to Colorado. I have always seen in the parts I was finding at thrift stores and flea markets my own vision of what craftsmen put into details, many unseen, and the longevity of these manufactured pieces I use as inspiration and metaphor. I am part Louisiana Native, Tunica-Biloxi from Marksville - Cajun, white, brown, etc. I am both my locale and soul in the West, and New Orleans where I grew up, and return yearly to sell at Jazz Fest, exhibit at galleries, and immerse myself. As a Severe ReConstructivist in my style of ‘Western Futurism’, my mix of Mardi Gras Indians, their power, cultures and identifiable imagery in my art combine the West and the South in an abstract mechanical fashion of respect and strength. I now live and create in Tucson, Arizona but always a New Orleanian."
Jimmy Descant work can be found at Deluxe Rocket Ships.
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