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Anne-Lise Coste. From Le Cri III. SILKSCREEN ON PAPER. 35 EDITION SIZE. 650.00 (USD) PRICE. THIS BLACK SILKSCREEN IS PRINTED ON COVENTRY RAG 290GSM PAPER. SIZE OF PRINT IS 30.5" X 28.5". ABOUT THE WORK. Coste's "Guernica" series, like all her work, balances severity and airiness. She fuses the intuitive mark-making of expressionism with the mechanized paint application of Pop. Coste raises existential questions through the social and political content of Picasso's regarded masterpiece-articulating them by cropping details and obsessively revisiting certain marks. Coste says, "I don't want to believe the art and the artist cannot be critical and straightforward. I hope my integrity is my power, I don't succumb to cynicism and disillusion, I re-assemble Guernica together, tableaux by tableaux. Working freehand and having faith in the first gesture, I scream with the screamers: merde a la guerre.