These works belong to Pepe Mar’s Postcard Series, an intimate body of collages that function as visual sketches within his practice — small in scale, yet conceptually expansive.

For Pepe Mar, the postcard is not a finished destination but a starting point. Each composition operates as a private language: a gathering of symbols, textures, gestures, and fragments that later reappear — transformed, enlarged, and reimagined — in his monumental works. These pieces are where ideas first surface, where intuition leads, and where the mythology of the larger paintings quietly begins.

Cut, layered, and assembled by hand, each postcard holds the immediacy of a thought caught in motion. Figures emerge and dissolve. Limbs bend unnaturally. Eyes stare back with a knowing familiarity. The works feel instinctive, playful, and slightly mischievous — yet they carry the same emotional and symbolic density found throughout Mar’s broader oeuvre.

Owning a Postcard is akin to holding a page from the artist’s sketchbook, a rare glimpse into the generative process behind the larger works shown in museums and galleries. No two are alike. Each stands alone as a complete artwork while remaining deeply connected to the lineage of Mar’s practice.

• These pieces are ideal for collectors drawn to:

  • the origins of an artist’s ideas

  • works that feel personal, immediate, and alive

  • intimate objects that quietly carry the DNA of much larger statements

  Pepe Mar’s Postcards are not studies in preparation — they are moments of invention.

• Medium: Collage on museum board

• Size: 13 ½ × 7 ½ inches

• Individually signed by Pepe Mar on the verso of the framed work.