Robert A. Devoe (1928-1992) American, Signed Mixed Media Monotype. Gold foil, encaustic, and other mediums used to craft a large abstract image. Signed and dated '88 in pencil bottom right. Titled "Burgundian Dawn" in pencil bottom middle. Numbered 1/1 in pencil bottom left.  

Condition: Some spotting. 

Overall Size: 51 1/2 x 37 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 37 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. 

Robert Alan Devoe was born in Elmira, New York in 1928. He was a child prodigy who developed into a polymath in adulthood, interested in technology, mathematics, philosophy, music, and art. He earned both his BFA and MFA from the Tyler Art School in Philadelphia, and first began exhibiting brutalist sculptures and abstract geometric paintings at the Westbrook Gallery in Connecticut in 1956. His work was often ahead of its time and he struggled to find widespread appeal, although he gathered a loyal following of patrons who allowed him to explore art in many forms. His pieces are full of references to physics, Taoism, interstellar travel, the Big Bang theory, and realms of higher thought, with exhibitions all over the world from the late 1960s onward, particularly in Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Frankfurt, Germany. He left the art world for a time to explore radio and talk therapy, and received the Edwin Armstrong Award for Excellence in FM Broadcasting 1970 for a long-running show that gained a cult following in New England. He also wrote a book on sacred geometry throughout the history of art, as well as instructive manuals in crafting electronic music. Ever the Renaissance Man, he returned to art fulltime in the 1980s, and began to explore computer-created imagery as well as blurring the lines between architecture, televised media, and art. However, growing illness eventually forced him to move in with friends in Canton, Pennsylvania who helped to care for him until his death in 1992.

Some spotting.