878903

Gustavo Novoa, Unicorns Rhyme, Lithograph #878903

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Gustavo Novoa, Unicorns Rhyme,  Lithograph #878903
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A lyrical fantasy from the artist?s famous animal period circa 1980. An original lithograph, 30x22 in., signed in pencil and marked, Artist?s Proof out of the edition of 275 examples. Domestic shipping-$20, International depends upon location.
Gustavo Novoa is the son of a family of lawyers in Santiago, Chile. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts, as well as, a year of law school, only to learn that structured careers were not for him. Novoa made his debut as an artist in the early 1960?s selling watercolors and works in crayon on the streets of Paris, principally Monmartre. His first one-man show was sponsored by the Chilean Ambassador at the Maison de L?Amerique Latin in 1961. The late Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain sponsored his second show in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1962. Showing in galleries in the Faubourg St. Honore and the Salon de la Jeune Peinture. Novoa completed his Parisian background, but by 1965, he had become an adoptive ?New Yorker?. He admits to having been lured like many others by the American dream on one hand, and such movies as ?West Side Story?, ?Breakfast at Tiffany?s? and ?The Wizard of Oz? on the other.
A successful partnership with Guy Burgos and later, Lady Sarah Churchill, led to the opening of the Burgos Gallery on Manhattan?s east side in 1965. By then, his style had evolved into textured oils that the New York Times? critic, Stuart Preston said ?What Novoa seeks to discover in his often fanciful landscapes and still-lifes is their ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1980</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:Chile</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:22</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Gustavo Novoa, Unicorns Rhyme, Lithograph</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Primitive</td></tr>


<tr><td>Location:New York, NY</td></tr>
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