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| Palmer Custom Cue Made for Robert Kipniss |
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 Robert Kipniss is one of the great living artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His body of work is so extensive that it fills volumes of books and museum catalogs. His works have a distinctive style that has evolved over the past 50 years, while staying true to his artistic vision. World renown museums and galleries regularly collect and feature his work.In addition to creating works of art on tangible media, in the 1960s and early 1970s in New York City, Robert created in another way by playing three cushion billiards. Though he is not fond of the nick-name, he was loosely known at the time as "Bob the Artist." Robert was respected as a player and regularly subsidized his income with earnings from the green baize. Robert had Gene Balner of Palmer Cues make a custom cue to closely resemble an earlier Brunswick Hoppe cue that was stolen from him. Robert asked for a simple and elegant cue that was not too fancy. What Balner delivered was a Titlist full splice cue with no wrap (another specification), with minimal inlay work (at least for Palmer Cues). The Titlist blank features one of the finer pieces of rosewood ever used in a Titlist cue. On the bottom of the cue in the famous Palmer window is the name "Bob K.," which always disappointed Kipniss. The Palmer signature is also in the window. The cue is in excellent 100% original condition and now resides permanently retired in the Andrews Collection, along side original pen and ink drawings by Kipniss of the cue and billiard balls.
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