Death of the Water Lilies
Richard Pence
Acrylic on canvas, with decalcomania transfer
30 × 18 in
Price on request
A field of blue broken by drifts of yellow, oxblood and white, pressed on with painted vellum and pulled away so the paint dries into raised cells like hammered metal or a dried riverbed. It is painted over an earlier work, Resist, and a dark mark from that painting still surfaces near the top.