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RICHARD MAYHEW (1924 - )
Scarlet Journey
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Oil on linen canvas, 2006. 762x762 mm; 30x30 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Signed, titled
dated and inscribed “30x30” in ink on the backing paper, verso.
Provenance: the artist; Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans; private collection, Atlanta.
Exhibited: Stella Jones Gallery, National Black Fine Art Show, New York, NY, February 7, 2007,
with the label on the frame back.
This high tone composition by Richard Mayhew is a stunning example of the artist’s later landscapes
- his colorful and atmospheric paintings push the limits of the genre, and almost embrace abstraction.
[20,000/30,000]
