**Originally Listed At $400**

Gay Patterson (American, 1948-2019). "Cho (Butterfly)" watercolor, ca. 1970s. Signed on lower right. A stunning, large-scale watercolor depicting an attractive Japanese female geisha by Santa Fe artist Gay Patterson. The young lady wears a beautiful kimono adorned with pink blossoms and butterflies against a black ground. She raises her arms in a graceful dancelike pose and turns her head back so that it faces the opposite direction of her outstretched hands, her pretty visage presenting delicate features framed by centrally-parted, straight black tresses. Pink blossoms extend to the glowing background. A gorgeous and impressively large watercolor set in a custom matte and frame behind glass. Size (painting): 20.125" L x 14.5" W (51.1 cm x 36.8 cm) Size (frame): 29.7" L x 23.875" W (75.4 cm x 60.6 cm)

Gay Patterson's artist's statement provides precious insight to her work. The following is a poignant excerpt: "Over decades, I seem to have embedded notions of ephemerality, motion and the constant of change in my work. I'm not sure if I'm trying to understand mutability, nail it down or accept it, but it is a primal state of life, and so very beautiful. What you see, feel and think depends on just how you approach everything, including art. In looking at a painting, no part exists in isolation but alters in relationship to what it is next to, where it is viewed from, what the quality of light is and every experience you bring along."

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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#175919

Signed by the artist on the lower right. Watercolor is mounted in a custom matte and frame behind glass. While not examined outside the frame, it appears to be in very good condition. Some scuffs to the frame as shown. Artist's copyright stamp with title, dimensions, medium, etc. as well as old exhibition label for "Mountain National 1975" attached to cardboard on verso. Old tape around this board is coming away, but there is another board behind it which is protecting the painting.