Patrick Nagel's MONTANA BY GALLERY 92 Frameless art 1995

You are looking at a frameless art of Patrick Nagel ' s "MONTANA " lady with horse . Nagel was famous for his work as an illustrator for playboy and for the Cover of Duran Duran's best selling album Rio . Nagel’s finished works were compositions in simplicity. He usually began with a photograph of his subject and whittled down extraneous elements (or distinct personality, critics would chide) until he was left with the hard lines of angular faces and sculpted hair. He tended toward rendering women whose black hair was offset against white skin and full, red-lipped mouths. Although Nagel helped define the look of a decade, he lived for little more than three years of it. He was only 38 years old when he died on Feb. 4, 1984. It was an ironic end. Nagel had taken part in a celebrity aerobics event to raise money for the American Heart Association, only to die later that same day of a heart .attack. But his art lives on in this gallery 92 frameless art 24" wide by 32 " high .in this piece negative space is cut out on this high gloss thick wall art . galleries 92 had closed down many years ago. And You can't find this unique frameless art piece anywhere . Art is beautiful to behold.