Richard Hambleton | Shadow Head Penguin Book Inspired Art Known for its vibrant spot

Known for its vibrant spot compositions and conceptual approach to value and collectability

Framed size: 23" x 23" inches (58 x 58 cm)

The mixed media technique allows Watkins to build surfaces of considerable textural complexity — paint combined with additional materials that introduce new qualities of surface and depth

the food of genuine economic constraint — in a single substitution that says everything about the distance between the aspiration of American consumer culture and the reality of British working-class experience

dated and numbered in pencil verso

Richard Hambleton | Shadow Head Penguin Book Inspired Art Known for its vibrant spotRichard Hambleton (19522017) Shadow Head Oil on canvas Original Before Banksy stencilled walls, before KAWS colonised galleries, Richard Hambleton was painting ominous black silhouettes on the streets of lower Manhattan. His Shadowman figures appeared on unexpected corners, in alleys, behind doorways figures at the periphery of vision that made the city feel watched. Blek le Rat, one of the founding figures of European street art, said of Hambleton: