The Bather

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«The Bather»
EUR 171/piece
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Each sheet is a multiple original art print with a hand-painted part on it (the blue sailor shirt), limited to a number of 34 pieces. Printed on Edition Duerer® high quality textured drawing paper. Exactly the very paper I use for drawing.

Probably the most frequently requested of my Post Pop Art motifs is that of the bathing drake. The many inquiries about prints of this motif can now finally be answered with a "yes." Starting today, there is a limited edition of 34 multiple originals, which, unlike previous editions of my multiple originals, are finished with a glossy, colorless fixative spray to make them look like high-gloss photographs or posters. Incidentally, the blue sailor shirt is hand-drawn on each of the multiple originals. This Post Pop Art work faithfully follows the examples from the Pop Art movement of the 1950s-1970s, which places mass-produced goods and famous personalities – or "vulgar" comic book characters, as Roy Lichtenstein called them – at the center of artistic attention.

Inspired by Paul Cézanne's paintings of bathers, this Post Pop Art piece depicts a popular mass media cartoon duck character bathing. I have swapped Cézanne's riverbank and surroundings for a sober white advertising setting and a transparent, colorless drinking glass filled with sparkling water.

* Edition Duerer® A4 high quality grained drawing paper, measurements are 210 mm width x 297 mm high (21 cm x 29.7 cm or 8.3 in x 11.7 in). Picture frame/passe-partout not included.