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Very Large Original by Marsha Hammel
1894 - This is a very special Original oil on canvas by the fantastic American artist Marsha Hammel. It is approximately 7ft high and certainly one of the finest paintings ever by this artist. This actual original has been published Worldwide as a Limited Edition print. It comes supplied with insurance replacement valuation for £20'000 along with biographical details on the artist and the image (Free of charge) A very special piece of art,note, the Artist recently has had a limited edition book published worldwide on her life story that retails for £250. The vibrant cultures acquired in her home cities, in particular from her time in New Orleans, Miami and Quebec, have inspired Marsha Hammel's passion for the two prevalent themes in her art, music and figure. During her education, Marsha Hammel was taught a classical and European approach to art and, in spite of being told later that contemporary artists should produce conceptual or abstract pieces, the classical idea still governs her work. In its mastery of line, Singer with the Band shows clearly the skills of the draughtsman which Marsha Hammel acquired through her early training of this kind. Marsha Hammel was inspired particularly to paint this scene by a film of the young singer Billie Holliday, whose trademark was a large white flower behind her ear. The painting is also characterised by the artist's sense of colour. Marsha Hammel decided in the 1980s, when painting in the sub tropics, that colour was taking over her compositions and decided to limit her pallet to earth pigments: black, white, ultramarine, alizarin crimson and cadmium yellow medium. Since then, colour has gradually returned to her art but, as this painting shows, this simple pallet is still the basis of her work today. H: 208cm W: 179cm D: 7cm
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