Rick Amor – Cain in the Desert ( The Running Man- The Runner )

Artist: Rick Amor Born 1948-

Title : Cain In The Desert .

Medium : Gouache on woven Arches Paper .

Size: 38 x 56 CM

Signed: Lower right RICK AMOR & dated 13 / 2 / 81  & Titled on the rear “CAIN IN THE DESERT ” RICK AMOR 13/2/81 Gouache on Arches paper 38 X 56 .

Comments: Cain in the Desert is a part of a series that Rick Amor completed  in the early eighties & is the first manifestation of the  “The Running Man”or “The Runner” which has become the most recognisable image of all of Rick’s works .

Rick Amor being  interviewed by Josephine Rowe 2012 Melbourne :  I mean I’m a life-long atheist, I hate all religions, I just loathe them. I think they’re a blight on mankind, That didn’t work either, but it gave me the running man, I was doing a picture of Cain fleeing in the desert, fleeing the eye of God, and that ended up being the running figure. So that was something that actually came out of it.

Reference : Artist Profile issue 08 2009 page no 39 paragraph 4, RICK AMOR: A SINGLE MIND  Heide Museum of Modern Art p 70

Provenance : The Estate of  Mr Peter Dennison , Private collection Melbourne , Australian Decorative and Fine Art sales .