ANTHONY QUINN ORIGINAL "LADY FROM CRETE" SIGNED POSTER!

This is a Unused near MINT Original ART Poster from:

                            " LADY FROM CRETE" Hand Signed by the Artist: ANTHONY QUINN! 

                                           ***ANTHONY QUINN. APRIL 21. 1915. JUNE 3. 2001*** 

Puplished in 1982, Printed by the Mueller Co. in Wisconsin for the CENTER ART GALLERIES- HAWAII.

It states ANTHONY QUINN INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE EXHIBITION. CENTER ART GALLERIES December 1982 HONOLULU.  

This Poster is HAND SIGNED by ANTHONY QUINN and has never been framed.

This 27 Year old Poster is in Great Condition.

It measures 36 inches High and 24 inches Wide (91.5 x 61cm) and is long SOLD OUT.

It is printed on rich and heavy glossy Paper, Quit nice. He Signed it with a Silver Pen.

This rare find is being offered at a great price. A very nice piece of Art.

A Certificate of Authenticty is also included.

This Poster will be shiped rolled in a Poster Tube.

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 Painting and writing.

Prior to his acting career, Quinn painted and sketched winning various awards and competitions throughout his teenage years. Fine art later gave Anthony Quinn an identity outside the world of acting—unscripted and his own. Always searching and exploring, Anthony Quinn worked on perfecting his artistic style throughout the world wherever filming and his output of paintings and sculptures was extraordinary. He championed many of the concepts central to modernist sculpture, including “truth to material,” direct carving, and inspiration from so-called primitive art, all of which became central to twentieth century practice. “Found Art” was another inspiration—he found art in everything from tree branches and shells to architectural fragments.

Art critic and professor of Art and Philosophy, Dr. Donald Kuspit, explains “examining Quinn’s many expressions of creativity together—his art and acting—we can see that he was a creative genius, by which I mean that the works that he made and surrounded himself with are of an imaginative piece, not simply passing fancies…”

Early in life Quinn had interest in painting and drawing. Throughout his teenage years he won various art competitions in California and focused his studies at Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles on drafting. Later, Quinn studied briefly under Frank Lloyd Wright through the Taliesin Fellowship—an opportunity created by winning first prize in an architectural design contest. Through Wright’s recommendation, Quinn took acting lessons as a form of post-operative speech therapy, which led to an acting career that spanned over six decades.

Apart from art classes taken in Chicago during the 1950s, Quinn never attended art school; nonetheless, taking advantage of books, museums, and amassing a sizable collection, he managed to give himself an effective education in the language of modern art. Although Quinn remained mostly self-taught, intuitively seeking out and exploring new ideas, there is observable history in his work because he had assiduously studied the modernist masterpieces on view in the galleries of New York, Mexico City, Paris, and London. When filming on location around the world, Quinn was exposed to regional contemporary art styles exhibited at local galleries and studied art history in each area.

In an endless search for inspiration, he was influenced by his Mexican ancestry, decades of residency in Europe, and lengthy stays in Africa and the Middle East while filming in the 1970s and 1980s.

By the early 1980s, his work had caught the eyes of various gallery owners and was exhibited internationally, in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Mexico City. His work is now represented in both public and private collections throughout the world. Since his death in 2001, Quinn's art has grown significantly in popularity selling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. More recently, his art has increased in cultural importance and evolved from commercial gallery setting to the institution of the fine art museum through an international traveling exhibition. Various publications have been written on Anthony Quinn's artistic drive and style and his work continues to be interpreted and studied.
 

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