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Robert Anderson "Queen of Hearts" Artist Proof Lithograph, Pencil Signed

Color lithograph titled "Queen of Hearts" by Robert Anderson, a surrealist composition layering two nude female figures over the iconographic Queen of Hearts playing card, with a winged heart bearing a closed mouth at lower right. The print is pencil signed "Anderson" lower right and annotated "A.P." lower left, designating this impression as an artist proof outside the standard edition.

Presented behind glass with a cream mat in a carved giltwood and plaster frame featuring a stylized leaf-and-bead molding.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Robert R. Anderson (American, 1946–2010) earned his MFA from Pratt Institute in 1972 and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship along with three New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship grants. His paintings exhibited through OK Harris Gallery — Ivan Karp's foundational SoHo space, which launched Robert Bechtle, Ralph Goings, Robert Cottingham, and the rest of the canonical American Photorealism roster beginning in 1969 — and entered the permanent collections of the Morris Museum (NJ), SUNY Brockport, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Muhlenberg College, and AT&T's corporate holdings.

Anderson worked exclusively in acrylic, building each painting from composited photographic sources: hard-edged airbrush rendering for objects, softer feathering for figures, set against flat posterized fields. From 1990 he served as Fine Art Consultant to Liquitex — the leading American acrylic paint manufacturer — and produced instructional videotapes on photorealism and color theory. He co-authored the painting manual Art of the Dot, taught college-level drawing, painting, and design, and served as a contributing editor to a national art magazine.

CONDITION

Print presents in Good condition with strong color saturation and a clean sheet. Frame is in Good condition with chipping and losses to the gilt plaster molding, most visible along one side as shown.

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