Richard Hambleton | Shadow Head Penguin Book Inspired Art the food of genuine economic

the food of genuine economic constraint — in a single substitution that says everything about the distance between the aspiration of American consumer culture and the reality of British working-class experience

Framed size: 23" x 23" inches (58 x 58 cm)

This impression is signed and numbered 55 from an edition of 150

Adventures by the Sea

painterly quality quite different from the sharp linearity of Picasso's earlier etchings

Richard Hambleton | Shadow Head Penguin Book Inspired Art the food of genuine economicRichard Hambleton (19522017) Shadow Head Oil on canvas Original Before Banksy stencilled walls, before KAWS colonised galleries, Richard Hambleton was painting ominous black silhouettes on the streets of lower Manhattan. His Shadowman figures appeared on unexpected corners, in alleys, behind doorways figures at the periphery of vision that made the city feel watched. Blek le Rat, one of the founding figures of European street art, said of Hambleton: