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L09 BAYARD HOLLINS
Ajax, 2015
Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Estimated retail value: $10,000
Bayard Hollins studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art;
Program in Lacoste, France; University of Salamanca,
Salamanca, Spain; Studio Cecil-Graves, Florence, Italy; New
York Academy of Art; and the Florence Academy of Art,
Florence, Italy. Hollins has shown in museums in Aspen and
Dallas and has had numerous national and international solo
and group exhibitions. His work explores the link between
abstraction and figurative representation. He lives and works

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in Colorado and Maine.

L10 ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN
Kuusamo, Finland, 1976
Silver gelatin print, ED 12/25, 24 x 20 inches
Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery
Estimated retail value: $6,000
Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish American photographer
noted for his unmanipulated nude self-portraits in the
landscape. Born in Helsinki in 1945, he moved with his
family to America in 1951. He received his M.F.A. from
Rhode Island School of Design, studying with Harry Callahan
and Aaron Siskind. Currently, he is Professor of Art at the
University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is also docent and
visiting professor at the University of Art & Design Helsinki
and École d’Art Appliqués in Vevey, Switzerland.