Peter Passuntino 1960s Tempera on Paper Painting of Black and Pink Mask tiny shrimp but I've never seen one

but I've never seen one where the ball sits on a pedestal inside of it

looking as if singing up a storm

but I love it--in very large part because of that meat-like melon (with those very pork chop looking slices) which gives the whole thing a Chaïm Soutine sort of flavor in addition to lending it a certain eroticism

What I especially like about these is the repetition of a single letter over and over in both capital and lowercase form

which is dated 1965 on the underside and looks to be read Adolf

Peter Passuntino 1960s Tempera on Paper Painting of Black and Pink Mask tiny shrimp but I've never seen oneA couple more works on paper today by Peter Passuntino (b. Chicago, 1936), dating to the 1960s this bold painting on paper of a face or mask, and a second more narrative sort of drawing. I find them both very full of humanity and emotion this one making me think a bit of Picasso, and Matisse too, and very much of the sort of sorrow and search for meaning that transcends time. 13 7 8" x 10 3 4". Overall pretty good condition, with loss to lower right