Will Barnet (American, 1911-2012), Meditation and Minou

lithograph in colors, 1980, pencil signed, titled, dated, marked as hors de commerce and numbered (H.C. 2/10) lower margin, matted and framed.
Image size 22 x 28 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 33 x 38 3/4 in.
Barnet grew up in Beverly, Massachusetts, and as a child began spending hours sketching and reading art books at the local library. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and then moved to New York in 1930 to concentrate on lithography. He taught and produced art in New York for more than sixty years. From the 1950s on he would spend every summer producing art in Maine.

Barnet was an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting primarily the human figure, his own family being an enduring subject in his work, often in casual scenes of daily life, but also in transcendent dreamlike worlds emphasizing shapes and careful arrangement of colors that express moods and feelings.

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Some light toning to print; matting with some toning, few spots, and fairly faint stain lower left; not examined out of frame.