David Bowes

Painted painting by BOWES DAVID, Untitled from 1986.

Details: Signature and year at upper left. Technique : drawing on Fabriano Watermark.

His figures have a theatrical air, especially those with the appearance of Pierrot and Columbine and other Commedia dell'Arte characters. Consciously flirting with the decorative, Bowes often compresses the background and foreground, as in wallpaper, and there is a suggestion of fabric design in the way he repeats his patterns at intervals on the surface. In some images, patterns emerge. In others, the pattern overwhelms itself

Provenance; Lucio Amelio Collection, Naples; Private collection. Slight defects.

David Bowes is an American painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1957; he lives and works in Turin, Italy. He is recognized in the early 1980s at New York's East Village. He is described as a "brilliant painter" with "a delicate touch and genuine seduction defined through paint." His works, now held in the collection of the Walker Art Center and The Broad Contemporary Art Mueum at LACMA, have been exhibited in both America and Europe. He participated in the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999.