Watercolor on paper, 1984, signed and dated at lower right, artist stamp to verso of sheet, matted and framed under glass.

Sheet sight 23 1/4 x 17 1/2 in. Frame dimensions 32 1/8 x 26 3/8 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles and studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton. In 1982 he moved to New York and by 1984 he became a figure of the East Village art scene. By 1987 his works were exhibited in New York galleries and prominently throughout the United States, Japan, Germany, and Australia. In 1988 he founded his large New York studio, Kostabi World.

Kostabi has designed album covers for Guns 'N' Roses, The Ramones, and Jimmey Scott. He is also known for collaborating with other artists including Enzo Cucchi, Arman, Howard Finster, Tadanori Yokoo, Enrico Baj and Paul Kostabi. His paintings are housed the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and the Groninger Museum in Holland.

Slight waviness to sheet, errant grime at lower edge, minor spotting, not examined outside of frame.