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Home Available from Denman Studios Available from Astoria Fine Art Available at Special Events Available from Greenwich Workshop Limited Edition Reproductions Archive of Previous Work About the Artist Contact Galleries Purchasing Information Commission Policy News & Events Newsletter & Mailing List Facebook Links	<Back to Thumbnails "Four Cherries I Ate" 10 ¾ x 8 ¾” Acrylic on Board, 2004 Still Life with Cherries $1,200 How to buy “Four Cherries I Ate” takes the concept of my modern trompe le’oeil work and pears it down into something, simple, elegant, and minimal. The shape of the piece (one of a very few oval or round paintings I’ve ever created), the abstract background, and the placement of the fruit and stone, is intended to evoke the Yin-Yang symbol. Certainly the concept of the interconnectedness of life and death was a great preoccupation for the American masters of the trompe le’oeil school. In their deft hands, even simple objects such as burning candles, old books, well-worn photographs, and bones became potent symbols for the necessary interconnectedness of life and death, the mutability of human existence, and the persistence of knowledge. “Four Cherries I Ate,” with its bright values, candy pastel palette, and cheeky sense of humor, both acknowledges these themes with a mischievous wink and dismisses them with a carefree smile.
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