Lot #14: Robert Bateman Goldfinch With Mullein Hand Signed Numbered Limited Edition

Robert Bateman Hand Signed Numbered Limited Edition Goldfinch With Mullein 1987. Spectacular Bateman limited edition print. Never been framed and in excellent condition ready to be framed to your tastes. Stored flat and protected with acid free paper. Image size is 21 1/8 inches wide by 16 3/4 inches high. "In this painting, I like the way the old leaves have a textured, sculptural quality that relates to the eroded embankment. The soft, adulatory forms of the grassy hillside are a backdrop to the sentinel-like ramrods of mature mullein stocks. Although many consider them just weeds, to me the mullein plants have the nobility of some ancient aristocrat. The goldfinch is not an afterthought. I put him in the painting partly to give scale, and partly because he is usually found in this type of habitat. I left the bottom unfinished because I enjoyed the sketchy quality of my brush strokes, and I liked the artistic element provided by the white negative spaces." - Robert Bateman Measurements: 21x1x17 Pickup category timeslot {A}