Lot 580: Basil Ivan Rakoczi, Abstract Ram's Head, Watercolor and Gouache on Paper 68x97cm

A watercolor and gouache painting on paper by Basil Ivan Rakoczi (1908-1979). The composition is an avant-garde still life in a cubist style, featuring a stylized ram’s head with large curved horns, a human silhouette in profile, a tall white vessel, and two glasses. A green sprig with red berries lies across the foreground against a geometric background of blue, green, and pink panels. The artist’s name is painted in black ink at the lower left as Rákóczi. The work is presented in a white mount and a black wooden frame. The back of the frame features extensive handwritten notes in black ink providing biographical details for the artist, including his membership in the White Stag Group, and an epitaph titled Song.