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BARBARA ROMAIN
Carnaby Street
Oil on canvas, 19.5 × 23.5 inches
ABOUT THIS WORK
Carnaby Street is Barbara's youngest pulse — pure pop, pure street. 19.5 × 23.5 inches, oil on canvas — oil is rare in Barbara Romain's archive, which is dominated by acrylic — titled for the London street that became shorthand for an era. This is the painter's youthful eye, before the diagnosis, before the late text-based abstractions: fashion, music and color caught at speed. It moves faster than you do.
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