Mid 20th Century Large Surrealist Portrait of a Lady, Signed, Numbered and Titled, Artist Peter Paone

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Mid 20th Century Large Surrealist Portrait of a Lady, Signed, Numbered and Titled, Artist Peter Paone. Lithograph, framed in a … more Mid 20th Century Large Surrealist Portrait of a Lady, Signed, Numbered and Titled, Artist Peter Paone. Lithograph, framed in a wood frame, matted under glass. Featuring a woman with black hair, in black and white with a bow ribbon neck tie and polka dot shirt.

Title: Donna : Signed: Peter Paone : numbered 26/50

Very large 29”x38”

Peter Paone (born 1936) was born and raised in South Philadelphia. He grew up in a first-generation Italian-American home where the only art on the walls was religious in nature.

In the 1950s, Paone attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (now the University of the Arts), where he received a bachelor of fine arts degree in art education. His instructors included Benton Spruance and other great narrative artists and illustrators.

Paone lets his subjects evolve in the course of the creative process. He explains, “One of the things I realized early on in my career was that my powers are really in my imagination. I don’t work from nature. I don’t work from a subject. I don’t set up still lifes and I don’t have models. I don’t go out in the garden to paint. I work from memory. I work from what I remember from what I’ve seen.”

Paone's work has been exhibited at institutions across the United States and across the globe, and he has held senior teaching positions at both Pratt Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). less