The romance of Japanese prints often verges on fantasy. Writers illustrate exquisite pictures by Utamaro and Sharaku, then talk of the “popular art” of the medium, suggesting that some of the rarest, most beautiful work of graphic art in the world were originally published as penny pinups for an untutored audience. Much of this visual pageantry we could read purely in the attitudes assumed in the figures. Marcel Antonio invents these attitudes in his signature “petits recits” fashion for the purpose of exploiting them in line and color.
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Marcel Antonio (b.1965)
Untitled
signed (lower right)
oil on canvas
48” x 96” (122 cm x 244 cm)
SOLD: PHP 3,270,400
Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Singapore