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Warren Rohrer 1927–2005

Barks and Marks

1988
lithograph in colors on BFK Rives 21 h × 26 w in (53 × 66 cm)
estimate: $600–800
result: $693
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Signed and numbered to lower edge ‘5/175 W. Rohrer’. This work is number 5 from the edition of 175 printed by Corridor Press, Philadelphia and published by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
provenance: Important Philadelphia Estate

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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Fields fallow to their full ripeness

Skin of eggplant, inside and out

Ripples converging on the frog pond

Light, shade, veils, fog, haze, stubble, tassel...

These are the things I look at but they are not my subjects. 

My subject is the STROKE. A color event sets me off. 

From the ground of the canvas to the final layer of

paint I work at maintaining a life of stroke and color

— to make a live painting. 


Warren Rohrer, September 1976

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