This artwork titled "The King of the Masque" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by American artist Robert Raymond Anderson, 1945-2010. It is hand signed and numbered 139/250 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 19 x 16 inches, sheet size is 28 x 20 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist: Anderson's work has, in contrast to his refined photo-realist technique, a definite, causal blue-jeaned feeling of the 60's and 70's. Anderson also successfully combines imagery from different eras of American history into modern muses and fantasies. His work has also been called "Victoriana Revisited" which is a description of the subject matter and overall atmosphere. Anderson uses a soft focus airbrush technique. He uses shadows to show that his foreground figures are not really part of their settings. His combination of soft-edged and hard-edged techniques provoke the viewer to wonder if all the elements are truly a part of the same scene. Anderson's paintings are executed in a surrealist vein. Although they celebrate people and faces in a realist way, the atmosphere they evoke reaches into moods. The work of Robert Anderson is held in many collections nationwide including, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences. Morristown, New Jersey State University of New York, Brockport, New York Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey The County of Morris, New Jersey Broadway Bank and Trust Company, Patterson, New Jersey American Telephone and Telegraph, Basking Ridge, New Jersey