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Untitled. Mixed media painting.
Acrylic paint with collaged magazine photograph on Fabriano Fine Art paper. 47x32cm. SIGNED and dated “12/1/87” in pencil to lower edge.
Sweeping brush strokes in green, ochre and brown paint, with a collaged colour magazine photograph of a lemur in a tree.
Burroughs’ short story, “The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar”, first published in the New Statesman in December 1986, was an ecological lament for an endangered species in which Burroughs took a special interest, and he frequently included them, as here, in his visual work.
Tiny bump to upper left corner, o/w Fine.