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Lot 196173:
Description
“Pacific Sunrise” by John Pitre (1942-Current, American) limited edition signed print. One of Pitre’s best known paintings is A New Dawn, a 1965 work which shows a modern human reduced to the status of a caveman in the midst of smoldering urban ruins. This painting, in the weeks after the September 11, 2001 attacks more than thirty five years later, was seen by one family as a foreshadowing of what came to be known as the Ground Zero of those events, despite the painting being conceived as a statement on the escalation of nuclear weapons. In 2004, the owner of the original painting, which was valued in 1997 at $1.7 million, offered A New Dawn in trade for a £1 million house on the London real estate market.
Size: 18.25″ W x 16.75″ H
Condition: Very Fine
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