Rick Bartow
Passion Spent Alone, 2009
watercolor and graphite on handmade, persimon dyed Japanese paper
40.64 x 30.48 cm
16 x 12 in
16 x 12 in
BAR2202
R. E. Bartow Trusts
$ 4,000.00
Bartow made almost 200 floral works that are known. This delicately drawn and painted work is from a series Bartow refered to as 'spent passions.' Bartow painted this passion flower...
Bartow made almost 200 floral works that are known. This delicately drawn and painted work is from a series Bartow refered to as "spent passions." Bartow painted this passion flower on a handmade paper that partially stained and then attached onto a larger piece of handmade Japanese paper that was thoroughly stained redish brown- with kakishibu persimmon tannin dye.