SIGNED BLACK & WHITE OIL-ON-CANVAS OP ART NUDE (1970s) ART014 The following museums own works

The following museums own works by Mascarin: Museum Bellerive

illustration

a venture founded with son-in-law Gianfranco Ghiretti in Florence in 1993

and especially the works of Piero Fornasetti

and Edmund Peters

SIGNED BLACK & WHITE OIL-ON-CANVAS OP ART NUDE (1970s) ART014 The following museums own worksThe warped checkerboard of this dramatic Op Art oil painting is subtly manipulated to map out the contours of a voluptuous female nude. The viewer is challenged to look beyond the surface in order to perceive the hidden form, as the stark black and white contrast heightens the sense of distortion. In the same way that zebra stripes function as camouflage, the geometries obscure the outline of the figure and prevent the viewer from readily