Rick Amor 'The Sighting' mexican artists Image Size: 50 x 80

Image Size: 50 x 80 cm

'Midmorning' 1991

Signed: Editioned lower left and embossed with publishers seal lower right

these autumnal-hued drinking buddies appear lost in thought - what are they thinking about

It recalls the kind of intimacy shared in still moments where some of our biggest decisions are wagered

Rick Amor 'The Sighting' mexican artists Image Size: 50 x 80Rick Amor is among Australias most collectible artists. His work is psychologically incisive, taking ordinary landscapes and filtering them through an emotional prism. Under Amor, a cloudy sky becomes a site of alienation, melancholy and melodrama. A sense of foreboding perculates, as though something divine lies behind the plumes of cloud. In a review for Amors exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Sebastian Smee wrote that he is singular: