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$300.00 LOWERED PRICE FOR ONE WEEK ONLY.....
SURREALIST, KENN DAVIS' FRAMED OIL PAINTING on LINEN. THAT WAS A STUDY FOR A JEFFERSON AIRPLANE STAGE BACKDROP THAT WAS COMMISSIONED AND USED IN THE EARLY 1960s.
** THIS PAINTING IS A PIECE OF ROCK HISTORY. LISTED ARTIST, CALIFORNIA SURREALIST, KENN DAVIS WAS COMMISSIONEDBY THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE ROCK BAND... Jerry Kaukonen and Marty Balin specifically TO CREATE AND PAINT A PORTABLE MURAL FOR A BACKDROP, THAT COULD BE USED WHILE THEY WERE ON TOUR ... .
DAVIS CREATED THE PIECE IN THREE, ... 6' X 4' SECTIONS THAT CONNECTED AND WORKED LIKE A (TRIPTIC) SCREEN. THE THEME WAS THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (Famine, plague, war & death) REPRESENTED AS ROCK MUSICIANS. DAVIS FIRST DID SMALL OIL PAINTINGS OF EACH SECTION AS STUDIES TO WORK FROM AND THIS PAINTING WAS ONE OF THOSE. THIS PARTICULAR PAINTING HUNG IN THE GROUP'S HOUSE (ON LOAN) FOR A LONG TIME.
----- THE FULL BACKDROP WAS FIRST USED BY THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE AT THE MATRIX ON FILLMORE IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE LATE 1960s. WHERE THE TRIPLICATE SCREEN IS NOW IS UNKNOWN TO ARTIST, DAVIS. ... ** THE CORNER OF ONE PANEL WAS A CITY IN THE SKY ON GIRDERS UNDER SEIGE. KENN DAVIS LIKED THIS SECTION SO MUCH THAT HE KEPT THE STUDY IN OIL ALL THESE YEARS . NOW, I OFFER IT TO YOU.
SIZE OF THIS PAINTING: 16" X 20" UNFRAMED. THE MEDIUM IS OIL ON LINEN. FRAMED, IT MEASURES 19 3/4" X 23 3/4". IT WILL BE SOLD FRAMED.
FINE CONDITION WITH NO DAMAGE. SIGNED BY ARTIST ** WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY PERSONAL LETTER TO BUYER CONTAINING HISTORY TO ESTABLISH PROVENANCE OF THE WORK. NO PRINTS HAVE BEEN MADE OF THIS PIECE.
*** PHOTO TAKEN OF JERRY KAUKONAN (JEFFERSON AIRPLANE GUITARIST AND NOW HIS BAND, "HOT TUNA") PHOTO TAKEN BY Kenn Davis in San Jose in early 1960s.
ABOUT ARTIST:
KENN DAVIS has devoted his 48 year painting career to the interpretation of life in his own time. Associated with the North Beach Scene in the 1950s, he has continued to work with his chosen SURREALISTIC concepts, frequently in a satirical vein. In exhibitions throughout his home state of California, as well as in New York, Chicago, Boston, Houston and in Museums shows in San Francisco and Dallas, Davis has demonstrated his fascination with imagination. His work is often disconcerting and deliberately so. " There is enough art that lulls us into feeling right with the world, but to be stimulated by the artist brings us to another level of appreciation." With one eye on the European Surrealits Davis admires, he casts the other directly upon the AMERICAN SCENE -- and on the obsessions, passions and foibles peculiar to our time and place. FULL BIOGRAPHY AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. **KENN DAVIS is also the Edgar Award Nominated author of the CARVER BASCOMBE DETECTIVE SERIES PUBLISHED BY FAWCETT (Random House) FROM 1970 to 1990. YOU MAY FIND KENN’S COMMERCIAL ART WORK ON THE WEB. HE DID TWO COVERS FOR RICHARD BRAUTIGAN POETRY BOOKS AND THE COVER FOR ROBERT BLOCH’S (PSYCHO) “LEFTY FEEP,” AND COVERS FOR THREE OF JOHN STANLEY’S "CREATURE FEATURE" BOOKS. MR. DAVIS ALSO WORKED AS AN ARTIST FOR 20 YEARS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. AN ARTIST HAS TO EAT.
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