Tony Scherman b. 1950

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 CAD

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Description

Tony Scherman
Free French
signed, titled, dated '80 and inscribed (15) on the reverse
encaustic on canvas
152.5 by 91.5 cm.
60 by 36 in.

Provenance

The Mayor Gallery Limited, London
Private Collection, Arizona

Literature

Adison Parks, Arts Magazine, November 1980, p. 27.

Catalogue Note

Scherman's early work is a masterful exploration of surface. In a review for Arts Magazine in 1980 Adison Parks writes "there is flatness in Tony Scherman's painting that jumps at the sound of colour, there is a hardness that kneels to the sensusousness of his surface". This play between surface and subject is heightened by the use of encaustic, using the wax to capture the light so that even flat surfaces of colour have an added layer of dimension.