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A new original work from the studio of Philip Gladstone

"The Refugees"

"The Refugees" is an original, hand-drawn mixed-media mashup of imagery, featuring most prominently a portion of Pompeo Batoni's 1773 painting "Return of the Prodigal Son" (view on Wikipedia) juxtaposed with Jacques-Louis David's 1880 oil study "Patroclus" (view the David on Wikipedia)
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  • Original work on paper by Philip Gladstone

  • Made with watercolor, pen-and-ink, watercolor pencils, Windsor & Newton pigmented markers and touches of gold metallic ink (in the margins) with sgraffito on white clay-coated paper

  • Image measures 11-1/2 by 14 inches

  • Made in July 2018

  • Signed by the artist with his monogram (PG) and dated "2018", lower right; signed again with his full name and inscribed with the title on the reverse

Philip Gladstone Studio

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