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"Conversation With Death", (1934), lithograph, 9 3/4" x 15" on a 12 1/2" x 18 1/4" cream wove sheet, signed and numbered 16/40 by the artist in pencil (Fine and Looney 103). Benton Spruance (1904-1967) was born in Philadelphia and is primarily known as a lithographer of social, religious and mythological subjects. Human toil was a focal point in Spruance's artistic expression. He drew graceful nudes, serious portraits and subjects with fluid motions. "Conversation With Death" is a stone lithograph that contains almost no line shapes as all the shapes are defined by shadings. Lights and darks create the light shadows on the skulls and the stone base the subjects are sitting upon. This work is presented in a 27 1/4" x 22" antique finished frame washed with a flag gray finish and stacked on a heavily textured flat frame. The outer rawhide colored denim fabric and in inner ash gray on photo gray core acid and lignin free mattes are protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO …$2400.00. |