Summer Sale: Impressionist, Folk, Pop & Modern Art
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LOT 219:
Doug Bell: Blue Marker
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Estimated price :
$300 - $500
Buyer's Premium: 35%
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Doug Bell: Blue Marker
Doug Bell (American, 20th Century): Blue Marker, 1991. Mixed media abstract design. Oil/ graphite/ acrylic on paper hinged to mat board. Marked #8 in pencil verso. Label from Clark Gallery, Lincoln Mass verso. Unframed.
From the artist's website:
I have always been fundamentally attracted to line and value and how the variation of one will affect the other. I use a multitude of lines to describe form, to emulate light and shadow. Though I my experiment with other techniques and media, I always come back to this form of drawing. It provides for me a fresh way of viewing the world along with challenges to overcome. From woodcut to scratchboard to pen and ink to engraving, the use of line tells a story. It communicates a feeling between the image and viewer, and when successful, there is nothing more satisfying or magical
