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Auction Name: 2026 January 28 Tools at Play: The Hechinger Collection Modern & Contemporary Art Showcase Auction

Lot Number: 36026

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/17228*36026

Mr. Imagination (Gregory Warmack) (1948-2012)
Grinning Paintbrush Portrait, 1991
Mixed media
10 x 3 x 3 inches (25.4 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm) (overall)
Signed and dated on the reverse: Mr. Imagination / 1991

Property from the Hechinger Collection

EXHIBITED:
City Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, (and elsewhere), "Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection," July 1, 2001-December 30, 2008.

LITERATURE:
P. Hamill, Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, New York, 1995, p. 100, second on left example, illustrated.


Condition Report*: Overall condition of paintbrush inherent due to artist's use of upcycled materials. A few scattered chips with minor losses to figure's face and beard. UV examined area of repair to band at top of figure's face.
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