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Description
30" x 40" goauche / watercolor on board. Framed to 50" cloth wrapped frame designed by artist. Model Rhonda Ridley.
Inscriptions
Signed OLIVIA 93
Comment
"Coconuts", 1993.
This is the original FINAL painting by Olivia de Berardinis.
This painting is 40" high by 30" wide and framed to about 50"
Model is Rhonda Ridley.
Original Provenance Robert Bane Gallery Beverly Hills. This is a major piece and at one-time was the featured centerpiece of the gallery during Olivia's prime period there. This is PRIME Olivia.
Published more times than I can count. Including "Second Slice" page 79, Olivia's "Cheesecake Chronicles" page 25. Limited edition prints, trading cards and more.
Perfect combination of Olivia's prime cheesecake and animalistic creativity.
Olivia on the painting,"I was anti-fur and it was a live baboon, totally impossible, but it amuzed me." She also called "Absurdist pinup".
It is wrapped in white satin custom frame (for Olivia pieces) and signed by Rhonda Ridley on back with COA.I can take more detailed photos for someone serious.Painting is perfect.
This is the original FINAL painting by Olivia de Berardinis.
This painting is 40" high by 30" wide and framed to about 50"
Model is Rhonda Ridley.
Original Provenance Robert Bane Gallery Beverly Hills. This is a major piece and at one-time was the featured centerpiece of the gallery during Olivia's prime period there. This is PRIME Olivia.
Published more times than I can count. Including "Second Slice" page 79, Olivia's "Cheesecake Chronicles" page 25. Limited edition prints, trading cards and more.
Perfect combination of Olivia's prime cheesecake and animalistic creativity.
Olivia on the painting,"I was anti-fur and it was a live baboon, totally impossible, but it amuzed me." She also called "Absurdist pinup".
It is wrapped in white satin custom frame (for Olivia pieces) and signed by Rhonda Ridley on back with COA.I can take more detailed photos for someone serious.Painting is perfect.
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About Olivia De Berardinis
Olivia De Berardinis, known worldwide simply as Olivia, is an American artist who is famous for her paintings of women, often referred to as pinup or cheesecake art.
She has been working in this genre since the mid-1970s, becoming a contributor to Playboy in 1985.
By June 2004, she was given her own monthly pinup page for the magazine that continued for many years, often appearing with captions written by Hugh Hefner.
