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Cletus Johnson b.1941
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Ariadne

1988
mixed media construction lightbox 31½ h × 25½ w × 7½ d in (80 × 65 × 19 cm)

estimate: $1,500–2,000

result: $3,302

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Signed, titled, dated and inscribed to verso ‘Ariadne © 1988 Cletus Johnson July 88 Cherry Creek, N.Y.’.
provenance: Collection of Mimi Livingston

This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

I didn’t want to do what other people were doing… If I had begun painting, my work would have been like Edward Hopper’s. There is an element of Hopper in my work – my work is very much about the same isolated sensibility, the deserted spaces, the play of shadows and light.

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Cletus Johnson b.1941
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Ariadne

Ariadne

I didn’t want to do what other people were doing… If I had begun painting, my work would have been like Edward Hopper’s. There is an element of Hopper in my work – my work is very much about the same isolated sensibility, the deserted spaces, the play of shadows and light.

Cletus Johnson

Cletus Johnson b.1941 follow artist

Ariadne

Ariadne

I didn’t want to do what other people were doing… If I had begun painting, my work would have been like Edward Hopper’s. There is an element of Hopper in my work – my work is very much about the same isolated sensibility, the deserted spaces, the play of shadows and light.

Cletus Johnson

Cletus Johnson b.1941
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