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Prints by Denis Bond

2022? Four prints 12" x 8" (image size 10" x 6") for $21.88 each from FineArtAmerica through Etsy.  Archival Matte Paper, Nov., '24.

I was first attracted to Bond's "The Man and his Sweethearts" (see below) and then found the other three highly imaginative approaches to standard fables.  I will offer a comment on each below.

CP: Is Auntie upset that some bird has requisitioned her pitcher of water?

"Frogs and the Well": Is not the "hero" of this fable the frog lurking at the top, wondering if this plunge is wise?

TH: Perhaps the most surrealist of Bond's fable prints, both in the turtle like a baseball catcher and the head of the horizontal sleeping human.  Does the sleeper's position echo that of the column-person underneath his bench?

2W: This print tells the story dramatically.  The competitors are nicely contrasted in a number of ways.  In the enlarged version (click on the image), notice the hairs on the man's shirt, pants, and jacket.

 

2022? Print 12" x 7.5" Total Size: 14" x 9.5" of "The Man and his Sweethearts." for $29.88 each from FineArtAmerica through Etsy. Archival Matte Paper.  Nov., '24.

A larger version of the print above.