BOB STANLEY, Lake lll, 1970, Large Screenprint 54/110, Pop Art, Contemporary Art

ARTIST Robert Stanley MEDIUM Screenprint on Paper DATES 1970 DIMENSIONS Sheet: 40 x 29in. / 104.14 x 71.2cm SIGNATURE Signed, "Bob Stanley '70" lower right in pencil TITLE "Lake lll" EDITION Edition: 110, this is "54/110" as written in pencil lower center PUBLISHER CD Editions, New York, Blind stamp in margin CONDITION Excellent, Like New, See Photo's GENERAL INFO This print and several others I am offering are new to the market as they were in the private collection of a former New York art dealer who retired here in South Carolina and have been in storage for over 50 years. Bob Stanley (1932 - 1997) Bob (Robert) Stanley was a painter whose early work was figurative painting about contemporary American life. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he based his paintings on photographs, which he manipulated from black and white ot larger than life colored shapes. Stanley first worked in collage and in an abstract expressionist style but in 1963 turned to painting polarized two-color canvases based on images clipped from newspapers and magazines of rock and pop stars, sporting events and pornography. He made no attempts to disguise his images' origins in photography; they have the high key contrast and exaggerated chiaroscuro of photographs made under harsh lighting. This deliberate artificiality is a strong link to pop art, with its homages to technological production. Enlarged and often rendered in two equally sat