"Black Panther" by Mark King Signed Serigraph LE of 325 30" x 40" w/ CoA

"Black Panther" by Mark King Signed Serigraph LE of 325 30" x 40" w/ CoA Gorgeous, Impressionist Image in Day-Glo and Dark Colors of a Black Panther Mark King, a champion of Impressionism and the Ecole de Paris, was born in Bombay in 1931 of British parents. He is the product of an exotic and privileged upbringing in India, where he lived until the age of sixteen during the tumultuous last days of the British Raj. In 1948, following graduation from La Martiniere College in Calcutta, where his focus had been botany as well as art, King sailed to England to attend Bournemouth College of Art, having determined to pursue painting, sculpture, architecture and theatre design. He subsequently spent seven years as Resident scenic designer at the Oxford Playhouse Theatre, but in 1961 decided to concentrate on painting and moved to Paris to study at the Ecole and the Louvre. King follows in the footsteps of Courbet and the Impressionists, painting what he sees, such as the familiar streets, mon