Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 7

John Baker
"Smoker", contemporary, pencil on paper, portrait, collage, drawing

2023

$485
£368.37
€423.69
CA$677.64
A$755.65
CHF 394.26
MX$9,272.05
NOK 5,018.35
SEK 4,754.77
DKK 3,162.17
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

John Baker’s portrait “Smoker” is a pencil drawing on paper with collage 22 inches by 14 ½ inches. Concentration and disorientation are both well captured in the smoker’s face, which synthesizes into a coherent expression even though one half of it is upside-down! The drawing is unframed and is signed on the front and signed and dated on the reverse. John Baker is a widely exhibited painter based in Boston and New York whose solo exhibitions have been favorably reviewed in the Boston Globe (his paintings demonstrate that the human figure as a source of fresh ideas still endures), Art New England (Baker’s collages raise a bunch of interesting issues) and American Art Collector (John Baker’s wonderful and worthy project). A native of New York City, Baker was a pupil of Donald Judd for two years. The sculptor’s constructivist method remains an influence on Baker’s collage process, but Baker’s artistic results are more sensual and emotional as he adds the elements of subtle color harmony and reliance on impulse. Baker is represented by Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, MA.
  • Creator:
    John Baker (1944, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2023
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Natick, MA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: Baker_Smoker1stDibs: LU500311788922

More From This Seller

View All
"Old Madman 4", Contemporary, Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2020
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Old Madman #4”, an imaginary portrait 14 x 18 x .75 inches in flesh tones, greys, browns and whites, is from the artist’s important “Madman Series”. As Yeats wrote: “An...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Old Madman 3", portrait, greys, browns, whites, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Old Madman #3”, an imaginary portrait 24 x 18 x 1.5 inches in flesh tones, greys, browns and whites, is from the artist’s important “Madman Series”. As Yeats wrote: “An...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Blind Surgeon", contemporary, portrait, acrylic, collage, mixed media, painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Blind Surgeon” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 inches by 18 inches in flesh tones and light greys. Unkempt, one eye closed and the other pressed by a m...
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Layers of the Self", Surrealist, Portrait, Man, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2025
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Layers of the Self” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 32 x 20 inches in greys, blacks and whites, with flesh tones. Although quite young, the gentleman has ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Rough Going on the Inside", Contemporary Portrait, Collage, Mixed Media, 2022
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Rough Going on the Inside” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 36 x 28 inches in olive greens and dark reds. Unlike in Chagall, where the inverted heads sugge...
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"A Good Scratch", contemporary, collage, blues, portrait, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “A Good Scratch” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 20 x 1.5 inches in royal blues, golden yellows and flesh tones. Part of the modernist and post-modern...
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

You May Also Like

Smoker - Original Pencil Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Smoker is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right, with sketches on the rear. The state of preservati...
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Smoking a Cigarette - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Smoking a cigarette is an original drawing on paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989). Charcoal and waterc...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen

Smoker in White - Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1972
By Giacomo Porzano
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, dated and numbered by artist with pencil. Etching and aquatint. Edition of 90 prints plus 15 prints in Roman Numbers and 5 Artist's Proofs. Excellent condition.
Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Smoker in White - Original Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1972
By Giacomo Porzano
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, dated and numbered by artist with pencil. Etching and aquatint. Edition of 90 prints plus 15 prints in Roman Numbers and 5 Artist's Proofs. Excellent condition.
Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Smoker in White - Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1972
By Giacomo Porzano
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, dated and numbered by artist with pencil. Etching and aquatint. Edition of 90 prints plus 15 prints in Roman Numbers and 5 Artist's Proofs. Excellent condition.
Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Smoker in White - Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1972
By Giacomo Porzano
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, dated and numbered by artist with pencil. Etching and aquatint. Edition of 90 prints plus 15 prints in Roman Numbers and 5 Artist's Proofs. Excellent condition.
Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching