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Richard Estes — Qualicraft Shoes
Richard Estes

Qualicraft Shoes

Richard Estes' *Qualicraft Shoes* is a masterwork of photorealist printmaking, capturing the gleaming storefronts and reflective glass of an urban shoe shop with striking precision and clarity. Executed as a screenprint in colors on Fabriano Cottone paper, the work is laminated to Schoeller's rag board with an aluminum inlay, a distinctive production method that enhances the image's crisp, luminous quality. Estes transforms the mundane commercial streetscape into a meditation on light, reflection, and the visual complexity of modern city life.

Medium
Screenprint in colors, on Fabriano Cottone paper, laminated to Schoeller's rag board with an aluminum inlay (as issued), the full sheet.
Location
Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT

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Evening & Day Editions

April 23, 2019

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Richard Estes, Qualicraft Shoes

Richard Estes' *Qualicraft Shoes* is a masterwork of photorealist printmaking, capturing the gleaming storefronts and reflective glass of an urban shoe shop with striking precision and clarity. Executed as a screenprint in colors on Fabriano Cottone paper, the work is laminated to Schoeller's rag board with an aluminum inlay, a distinctive production method that enhances the image's crisp, luminous quality. Estes transforms the mundane commercial streetscape into a meditation on light, reflection, and the visual complexity of modern city life.

Medium
Screenprint in colors, on Fabriano Cottone paper, laminated to Schoeller's rag board with an aluminum inlay (as issued), the full sheet.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Bold, Commercial Subject, Color, American, Reflective, Screenprint, Pop Art, Urban, Realism, Contemporary

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