Dick Frizzell (b 1943)New Zealand, Blue Lithograph

Titled, 'Cutout Tiki' lithograph on paper, 52/85, pencil signed & dated: Frizzell 2005. Imagery after Matisse's blue nude series of cut-outs.Dick Frizzell is one of New Zealand's most celebrated painters. Having studied Fine Arts at University of Canterbury, he began his career in advertising before becoming a full time painter in 1995. He has exhibited extensively since with career highlights that include a major travelling retrospective, a 2005 residency in Antarctica, and the publication of the monograph Dick Frizzell: The Painter (Random House NZ, 2009).Provenance: Gow Langsford Gallery. Overall size: 43 x 37 in.Sight size: 36 x 29 in.