Thursday, July 5, 2007

graphic stud


Who's the artist?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This goes way back, some 20 yr, and may represent 2 or 3 generations of re-working from the underlying image. But my guess is Nick Backes, who had (if it isn't still flourishing) quite a spiffy little greeting card business operating out of Mills College Station in Oakland, California. But the image has launched quite a lot more than a thousand ships, and one of those mariners is bound to set us straight.

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sorry Laurent, maybe it is the color that misleads here: the original is black and white and by the ultimate master of black inkdot
perversity: REX !
on www.delftboys.com you can find the original as well as the model photograph he used as inspiration.
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Anonymous said...

yes of course, and thanks!