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Audrey Anastasi
Koi, golden fish, pastel drawing water, nature, abstract reflection

1983

$1,800
£1,360.58
€1,563.54
CA$2,506.49
A$2,788.37
CHF 1,461.70
MX$34,073.15
NOK 18,612.88
SEK 17,521.45
DKK 11,671.27
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These recently discovered 1983-84 oversize pastels on archival papers were created working quickly, in pastel. The series shows the last existing observational drawings prior to the artists switch to working with her non- dominant left hand. This is a rare pastel painting, focused on observed nature This work is based upon a scene in the Brooklyn Botanical gardens As a feminist, Anastasi's main cocentration is presenting other women. Unlike the often objectified male gaze, Anastasi's version of the female classical nude incorporates a modernist sensibility, often with a direct gaze or a palpable sense of interior life.

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