Lisa Zador is no ordinary painter of animals. Although her enchanting animal portraits take their cue from Old Masters, these oil paintings always demonstrate her own sure-handed technique and transcend parody and sentimentality. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes melancholy, and sometimes outlandish, Zador's dog portraits are a delight - not just to dog fanciers but also to connoisseurs of the art of the portrait. Unlike many painters, Zador works from live subjects - the dogs she knows and befriends, especially her own beloved Maltese terriers Toby and Bingo - to produce portraits that convey the personalities of the subjects, albeit clothed in artistic or historical costume. In this beautifully designed gift book, Zador has gathered a gallery of twenty pure- and mixed-breed dog. Each portrait is accompanied by a hilarious text about the subject, offering each dog the sort of magnificent life we all secretly imagine for our pets. A sharpei, for example, becomes Marco, the enfant terrible of society decorators, as well known for the stratospheric fees he charges his pedigreed clientele as for the everything-but-the-water-bowl ensembles he crams into their Park Avenue parlors. "All that Mies and Bauhaus stuff - it's just not comfy," he says.
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