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Cletus Johnson b.1941

Wagner's Oasis (First Sketch)

1979
graphite on paper 13⅞ h × 11 w in (35 × 28 cm)
estimate: $800–1,200
result: $504
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Signed, titled and dated to lower edge ‘Wagner's Oasis First Sketch CJ 10 June 1979’.
provenance: The Artist | A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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I didn’t want to do what other people were doing… If I had begun painting, my work would have been like Edward Hopper’s. There is an element of Hopper in my work – my work is very much about the same isolated sensibility, the deserted spaces, the play of shadows and light.

Cletus Johnson

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