£650 - £850
Limited Edition by Marsha Hammel
5572 - A framed limited edition on canvas by the American artist Marsha Hammel. One of only 195 published worldwide. Title: Singer with Band. It will be supplied with a replacement valuation for £1400 along with biographical detail on the artist. Some Marsha Hammel limited editions are selling in the region of £3500 and original paintings up to £20000. The vibrant cultures acquired in her home cities, in particular from her time in New Orleans, Miami and Quebec, have inspired Marsha Hammel's passion for the two prevalent themes in her art, music and figure. During her education, Marsha Hammel was taught a classical and European approach to art and, in spite of being told later that contemporary artists should produce conceptual or abstract pieces, the classical idea still governs her work. In its mastery of line, Singer with the Band shows clearly the skills of the draughtsman which Marsha Hammel acquired through her early training of this kind. Marsha Hammel was inspired particularly to paint this scene by a film of the young singer Billie Holliday, whose trademark was a large white flower behind her ear. The painting is also characterised by the artist's sense of colour. Marsha Hammel decided in the 1980s, when painting in the sub tropics, that colour was taking over her compositions and decided to limit her pallet to earth pigments: black, white, ultramarine, alizarin crimson and cadmium yellow medium. Since then, colour has gradually returned to her art but, as this painting shows, this simple pallet is still the basis of her work today. H: 125cm W: 75cm D: 6cm
