August 17, 2020

The original was painted in one day on August 17 2020 along with a handful of others in the same series and captures my frustration on that day. It’s an abstract snapshot of my hidden emotions.

Most had the COVID lockdown blues. This piece is part of an ongoing series of works on paper that explore my intuitive and sometimes outright feelings the pandemic had on me personally.

Hand painted artist proof mono print, Oil, Industrial flat enamels, watercolor and gouache on the finest archival hot press or cold press cotton rag, 225 gsm/15 mil museum quality paper. The paper is produced by Arches Papers. Arches paper have been in operation since 1492 in Vosges region of France. The Arches paper mill is now the only paper mil in France to manufacture all its fine art and printing papers using cylinder moulds.

The technique implemented through the editions I first employed in the late 1980s. This includes, hand printed mono prints using a custom, hand built printing press which uses my automobile to apply pressure with incredible accuracy. In addition, silkscreen, dry point etching and techniques I learned first hand working at Mixografia in east Los Angeles. Painted at the Texas and Manhattan studios.

Edition Totals:

• Original: 1
  
• Artist Proofs: 4
• Edition: 6

Details:

• Framed: 30 x 38in (76.2 x 96.52cm) 
• Unframed: 22 x 30in (55.88 x 76.2cm)
• Signed numbered and dated 
• Certificate of authenticity hand signed by the artist
• The work will be accompanied with NFC Chip & NFT via certificate of authenticity generated by The Fine Art Ledger
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Robert Santoré has teamed up with The Fine Art Ledger. 

Each print in this edition will come with an embedded NFC chip which is registered through the Fine Art Ledger's platform which tracks authenticity and the prints provenance

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