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ROY DEFOREST (American) Color lithograph

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Roy DeForest (American, 1930 - 2007)

Purple Drama.

Color lithograph. Early 1950s. Signed in pencil, lower left; annotated "A/P" in pencil, lower right. 14 7/8 x 20 1/4 in. (378 x 514 mm). Sheet Size: 17 7/8 x 22 13/16 in. (454 x 579 mm). DeForest's work evolved through a number of styles, from abstraction to non-objective, from funk to realism. His early paintings were composed of larger, overlapping, amorphous shapes in bright colors. The early prints were not as colorful and were characterized by "Motherwellian" blacks. DeForest's early prints appear to have been issued in very small editions, if editioned at all, and undoubtedly are very rare.

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