The Tramp And The Stray No 1 1991

Acrylic And Collage On Two Canvas 1991

24 x 48 inches

The painting The Tramp and the Stray #1 was completed in 1994 is a part of the series of paintings, and works on paper that has as its subject, a man and a cat. Another painting that was a part of this series is the painting Cat Got Your Tongue.

Both images show a man with a cat. At times the cat is friendly and docile toward the man, and in the case of the cats got his tongue, overtly, aggressive.

These series of paintings and works on paper fall under the style of Expressionism, emphasizing the formal elements of gestural line and texture and surface. The content of the work often expressed the complexities of a relationship between two entities.

A lot of the work completed between 1994 through 1996 was influenced by the art of the COBRA movement that came out of Europe in the 1950s, the painter William de Kooning, and the work of Jean Michel Basquiat.

Offered for sale at $8,500