Editions & Works on Paper 
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Pat Steir b.1938

The Wave - From the Sea after Leonardo, Hokusai and Courbet

1985
aquatint in colors with soft ground and hard ground etching, drypoint and soap ground aquatint image: 35⅛ h × 44¾ w in (89 × 114 cm) sight: 39⅞ h × 48 w in (101 × 122 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $4,410
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Signed, dated and numbered to lower right ‘23/50 Pat Steir Dec 85’. This work is number 23 from the edition of 50 printed by Hidekatsu Takada and published by Crown Point Press, Oakland.
provenance: Aileen Ryan Earnest Fine Arts, Scarsdale, NY | Private Collection
An example of this work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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I'm making something that wasn't there before. I've always liked being an oil painter, attached to the mythology and the magic of making something that relates to history, that has a history, an image of space that is simultaneously flat and deep.

Pat Steir

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