Richard Hambleton | Shadow Head Penguin Book Inspired Art

Richard Hambleton | Shadow Head Penguin Book Inspired ArtRichard Hambleton (19522017) Shadow Head Oil on canvas Original Before Banksy stencilled walls, before KAWS colonised galleries, Richard Hambleton was painting ominous black silhouettes on the streets of lower Manhattan. His Shadowman figures appeared on unexpected corners, in alleys, behind doorways figures at the periphery of vision that made the city feel watched. Blek le Rat, one of the founding figures of European street art, said of Hambleton:

Known for its vibrant spot compositions and conceptual approach to value and collectability

Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite panel screenprinted with glitter

This impression is signed and numbered 55 from an edition of 150

hand-cut edge of the board itself — visible evidence of having been physically removed from something larger

Adventures by the Sea

” and “The Greatest Englishman” worked directly into the piece alongside a Union Jack motif rendered in cracked

the food of genuine economic constraint — in a single substitution that says everything about the distance between the aspiration of American consumer culture and the reality of British working-class experience

of the decision to believe in something

Framed size: 23" x 23" inches (58 x 58 cm)

dated and numbered in pencil verso

painterly quality quite different from the sharp linearity of Picasso's earlier etchings

The mixed media technique allows Watkins to build surfaces of considerable textural complexity — paint combined with additional materials that introduce new qualities of surface and depth