Large collage with oil, signed lower right. Signed, titled "Wasser," dated 2000. With label from Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury verso. Dimensions: (Frame) H 62.5" x W 50" Condition: Couple marks to the frame, few surface marks. Literature: BOOK - FRED OTNES COLLAGE PAINTNGS, ESSAY BY JILL BOSSERT, 2003. Illustrated on pages 134. /135., Plate. 76. This lot includes a copy of this book in the original box. Provenance: Collection of the artist 1998 to 2015. Collection of Robert K. Otnes 2015 to 2019. EXHIBITION: “Fred Otnes: The Mad Conceit of Chance” May 31 -July 12, 2015, at The Mattatuck Museum and Historical Society, Waterbury, Conn.

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