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Ernest Tino Trova (American, 1927-2009), collage entitled, "Summer", 1984. Signed and dated by the artist on the verso with an inscription to Allen Davis. A beautiful shadow collage presenting four silhouettes of decreasing scale standing before parallel planes of purple, violet blue, periwinkle, teal and aqua hues - with a sun rising or setting behind a distant mountain range. Trova was an American artist who worked in Surrealist and Pop Art styles. Early on in his career he showed his work at the Pace Gallery, and his works were collected by the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, the Tate in London, and the St. Louis Art Museum in his native Missouri. This collage stems from his best known works entitled, "The Falling Man" series created in 1964. Size: 8.5" L x 11.5" W (21.6 cm x 29.2 cm); 12" L x 16" W (30.5 cm x 40.6 cm) matted and framed under glass.

Trova's Falling Man compositions - including sculpture, paintings, and prints - are "about man at his most imperfect" and feature an armless figure as we see in this example. Trova himself described this piece as, "a personal hypothetical theory on the nature of man," and also stated, "I believe that man is first of all an imperfect creature. The first reaction I usually get to this is that I'm pessimistic. I don't think I am.... It's very close to many theories of man — the Catholic view that man is a fallen creature, for example."

Provenance: ex Allen Davis collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

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  • Condition: This work appears to be in excellent condition overall, but has not been examined out of the frame. Just a few near invisible scratches to the frame. An inscription from the artist is handwritten on the verso - includes title, date, and Trova's signature.

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