Woman's Face, 1978, oil on linen,  16 x 24 inches Sold

This is an early work, I was 22 and living in the horribly grungy East Village of Manhattan. This painting was based on a charcoal gesture drawing from a live model posing in a figure drawing group in SoHo. The pose had something kick-ass confidence, and something animal-like. Picasso was an early influence of mine, and I think that shows up in the abstracted forms of her face and shoulders.