Donald Baechler Untitled mixed media painting for ACRIA 1996

Donald Baechler

Unique painting: Mixed media with Ball point pen, acrylic point, industrial varnish and paper collage on canvas board. Hand Signed. Dated. Framed.

This original signed collage by Donald Baechler is numbered 30 from a series of unique collages that were created to benefit ACRIA a New York-based charity that supports AIDS victims. ACRIA, pioneers of HIV research, prevention & awareness, have now merged with the Gay Men's Health Crisis. The work was acquired from ACRIA and is featured in the monograph "Unframed: Artists Respond to AIDS."

Text in the collage is as follows: 

"The only rose without a thorn is friendship" and 

"Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you"

SIGNATURE

Hand signed, numbered and dated on the verso(back). 

PROVENANCE

donated by the artist to ACRIA, a New York-based charity that supports AIDS victims.