Peter Passuntino 1960s Tempera on Paper Painting of Black and Pink Mask tiny shrimp I really really love the

I really really love the crisp

but I've never seen one where the ball sits on a pedestal inside of it

A very curious one

What I especially like about these is the repetition of a single letter over and over in both capital and lowercase form

as if to say "I'll do you one better

Peter Passuntino 1960s Tempera on Paper Painting of Black and Pink Mask tiny shrimp I really really love theA couple more works on paper today by Peter Passuntino (b. Chicago, 1936), dating to the 1960s this bold painting on paper of a face or mask, and a second more narrative sort of drawing. I find them both very full of humanity and emotion this one making me think a bit of Picasso, and Matisse too, and very much of the sort of sorrow and search for meaning that transcends time. 13 7 8" x 10 3 4". Overall pretty good condition, with loss to lower right