Coffee Table Book, Carmen Cicero-Drawings and Watercolors:Tales of Intrigue, Danger, and Humor, 2024

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Amazing hardcover coffee table book chronicling contemporay American artist, Carmen Cicero, born in Newark, New Jersey, 1926. He is now … Read more Amazing hardcover coffee table book chronicling contemporay American artist, Carmen Cicero, born in Newark, New Jersey, 1926. He is now 99 years old. Cicero's early abstract expressionist works are collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, and other major museums, later evolved into clearly defined, dreamlike images indebted to Surrealist automatism. In the 1960s, Cicero was one of the first members of the American avant-garde to return to figuration, pursuing, through the 1970s and '80s, a figurative expressionist style. This developed into his more recent "visionary" mode, in which he depicts, with a startling clarity, mysterious scenes animated by multiple contradictory feelings--unfulfilled desires, jealousy, despair, and isolation--as well as a generous dose of humor. 14.4" x 12.3"x 1.2" See less