Émile Henri Bernard's most formative artistic years were spent in the city of Paris where the Impressionist style had arisen and dominated the avant-garde scene into the 1880s. He immersed himself in the arts, attending exhibitions and visiting galleries and studying at the École des Arts Décoratifs beginning in 1884. He also trained at the well-respected Atelier Cormon, the studio of the artist and teacher, Fernand Cormon. There he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, with him he formed a lasting friendship. Eventually, he was dismissed for "insubordinate behavior" and thus the radical young artist struck out on his own.
Bernard's close friendships with Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, two of the most influential artists of the Post-Impressionist period, proved fruitful in many ways, not least of which was the trio's intense co-experimentation; frequently, the produced works in identical themes and also made portraits of one another. Bernard maintained an extensive personal correspondence with Van Gogh and the letters they exchanged provide a unique window into the relationship. It is said that he was the first person to become aware of the importance of Van Gogh's work. Interestingly, Van Gogh's criticism of his work, particularly the biblical themes, prompted Bernard to end the correspondence. In the late 1880s, Bernard developed his unique Cloisonnist and Synthetist styles, which wer
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Clement Haupers (1900-1982)
Nudes Bathing, c. 19025
Watercolor on paper
height: 12 1/4 in x width: 7 1/2 in
Private collection
Clement Haupers (1900 - 1982) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Clem Haupers is today recognized for his facility with color, a reputation that was perpetuated in the work of his most famous student, the flamboyant colorist LeRoy Neiman. Although Haupers never reached the level of recognition that Neiman achieved in the 1970s, he nonetheless built a solid reputation as one of the premier landscape painters of his home state.
Haupers studied in Paris with the Cubist painter André Llote, who adhered to certain radical tenets of Cubism while refusing to break entirely with traditional vision, maintaining instead the intelligibility of the subjects he painted. Haupers seems to have adopted aspects of Llote’s approach. He builds his compositions on geometry but does not fracture the object into interpenetrating planes.
Upon completing his studies in France, Haupers returned to Minnesota where he became an influential teacher at the St. Paul School of Art, specializing in several media including painting, printmaking, and sculpture. He rose to prominence in 1935 as the state and regional director of the New Deal’s Federal Art Project in Minnesota, which helped re-stimulate the flagging art communities of the Twin Cities by hiring unemployed artists to decorate public buildings and parks. He also was Director of the Fine Art Department for the Minnesota State Fair from 1930 to 1941.
His works hang in collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The New York Public Library, The Minnesota Historical Society, The Minnesota Museum of American Art, as well as Museums in San Diego, Dallas, Philadelphia, and many other public and private collections.
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Irén Hilbert (1872-1925), Hungary, (Lám Árpádné)
Woman on the beach
Oil on canvas
55x40 cm
Private collection
Lám Árpádné Irén Hilberth, name variant: Hilbert ( Pest , March 19, 1872 – Budapest , Ferencváros , November 17, 1925) was born the daughter of Mór Hilbert and Szidónia Motusz. She studied at the model drawing school in Budapest, her masters were Károly Lotz and Lajos Deák-Ébner . From 1893, she was an exhibitor at the Art Gallery . Her death was caused by a lung tumor. The pastel self-portrait is in the Ernst Museum. Her oil painting Miklós Zrínyi was bought by the Museum of Fine Arts in 1903. Three other works of hers are kept by the Hungarian National Gallery. More on Lám Árpádné Irén Hilberth.
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Dean West
Agiofili Beach # 3, Under the Sun
Digital on Paper
65 W x 35 H x 0.1 D in
Offered for sale for C$3,577 in June 2023
Agiofili Beach, in Greece, is situated 38 km south of Lefkada Town and close to the village of Vassiliki. This is one of the clearest beaches in Lefkada with brilliant crystal waters and white soft sand. It is surrounded by white stone cliffs that create a beautiful setting and a feeling of seclusion. Source: www.greeka.com I try and capture my images with the same feeling you would have if you were actually there. Everything feels bright, contrasty, colorful and warm. Shot from a nearby cliff overlooking the beach.
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Dean West Australian B. 1983. A wide range of environments and character types are explored in the works of New York City-based Dean West. The Australian-born (1983) artist who studied at the Queensland College of Art, is best known for his intricate and highly staged photographs that take everyday occurrences beyond the realm of natural reality. Extraordinary in their tonal range, digital clarity, and artistic vision, West’s meticulously choreographed scenes, character studies, and atmospheric landscapes powerfully yet synthetically link needs to desires and documentation to invention. Passionately dedicated to the vast possibilities of digital photography as both a medium and a cultural epoch, West’s narratives draw inspiration from the total diversity offered by the visual arts. While the tableau photography of Stan Douglas and Jeff Wall inform West’s understanding of photography as a form of contemporary communication, the paintings of David Hockney and Edward Hopper provide evident aesthetic direction. The fictional world of cinema and the functional language of advertising have also clearly left their mark and taught lessons of their own.
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Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945)
SERENA WITH RED CAP, c. 2012
Mixed Media
24x33
Private collection
Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author working in Hyperrealism. She is one of the three artists credited with starting the movement in the late 1970s. She is best known for her figurative works of swimmers and dancers. She is the only artist to make realistically painted outdoor sculptures and the only woman to sculpt in this style.
Feuerman has received multiple awards including the Lifetime Achievement ‘Goddess Artemis” Award from the European American Woman’s Council (EAWC). She has also received the Special Honor Award in Changzhou CHN, Best in Show in Beijing CHN, the Amelia Peabody Award, First Prize at the Olympic Fine Art Exhibition in Beijing, and the Medici Award in Florence ITA. She has taught, lectured, and given workshops at the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum.
In 2011, she founded Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. Her works are in the permanent collections of thirty-one museums.
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Beach Photograph
Photography, C-type on Aluminium
39.4 W x 59.1 H x 0.7 D in
Offered for sale for C$7,403 as of June 2023
Martin Wieland born in 1970, studied at the Graphic Arts in Vienna. At the age of 14 he decided to follow in his fathers footsteps to become a professional photographer as well.
Since 1997 specialized in nude and erotic photography. His strength lies in the communication with the model, thus he encourages them to achieve maximum performance with maximum efficiency and getting the optimum results. The atmosphere during the shoot is reflected in his pictures. His photographs have already been published in several magazines worldwide.
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Eric Fischl
She and Her, c. 2017
Oil on Linen
8 x 110 inches
Private collection
Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor.
Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. He began his art education in Phoenix, Arizona where his parents had moved in 1967. He attended Phoenix College and earned his B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. He then spent some time in Chicago, where he worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1974, he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to teach painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Fischl had his first solo show, curated by Bruce W. Ferguson, at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Nova Scotia in 1975 before relocating to New York City in 1978.
Fischl's suburban upbringing provided him with a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image over content. His early work thus became focused on the rift between what was experienced and what could not be said. His first New York City solo show was at Edward Thorp Gallery in 1979, during a time when suburbia was not considered a legitimate genre for art. He first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstream American life.
Eric Fischl
Pretzel, C. 2017
Oil on Linen
80 x 98 inches
Private collection
Fischl's paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modem Art in New York City, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, St. Louis Art Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, MusÈe Beaubourg in Paris, The Paine Weber Collection, and many others. Fischl has collaborated with other artists and authors, including E.L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, Jamaica Kincaid, Jerry Saltz and Frederic Tuten.
Eric Fischl is also the founder, President and lead curator for America: Now and Here. This multi-disciplinary exhibition of 150 of some of Americaís most celebrated visual artists, musicians, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers is designed to spark a national conversation about American identity through the arts. The project launched on May 5th, 2011 in Kansas City before traveling to Detroit and Chicago.
Eric Fischl is a Fellow at both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Science. He lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY with his wife, the painter April Gornik.
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Eric Fischl
The Gang, c. 2006
Chromogenic print
20 × 24 in | 50.8 × 61 cm
Offered at US$2,500–US$5,000 as of June 2023
Since the 1980s, when he rose to prominence alongside artists including Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Neo-Expressionist Eric Fischl has painted voyeuristic, large-scale paintings of American suburbia. Inspired by his own middle-class upbringing on Long Island, the artist captures both the mundane and the taboo; in bright, gestural strokes, he depicts scenes of grief, inequality, adolescent sexuality, and political malaise. Fischl imbues his subjects, from beachgoers to poolside families, with a sense of gravity and foreboding as he manipulates light and shadow. In recent years, he has also painted deadpan scenes of art fairs. Fischl has exhibited widely in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and beyond...
Emilie Möri, France
Summer break
Photography, Digital on Paper
35.4 W x 35.4 H x 0 D in
Photograph offered for sale for C$1,650 on May 17, 2023
Émilie Möri is a Franco-Swiss photographer, born in 1978. She grew up in a family of printers. His experience in the field of screen printing reveals his passion for colors, image composition, artistic expression. A graduate of Les Gobelins Paris, Émilie is an artistic director . Alongside her creations for advertising agencies, publishing houses, major brands and magazines, she uses her photographs to compose representations - real concrete utopias intricate with her emotions according to the notes and drawings she imagines beforehand. Currently, her experiments revolve around feminine ataraxia, dreams and timelessness.
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BRUCE WEBER (NÉ EN 1946)
Lisa Marie, Palm Beach, c. 1986
GELATIN SILVER PRINT
39 x 49 cm. (153⁄8 x 191⁄4 in.)
GELATIN SILVER PRINT
Sold for EUR 6,930 on JUN 2023
ELLEN VON UNWERTH (NÉE EN 1954)
Claudia Schiffer, Mykonos, c. 1990
GELATIN SILVER PRINT,
179 x 119 cm. (701⁄2 x 467⁄8 in.)
GELATIN SILVER PRINT
Estimated at EUR 8,000 - EUR 12,000 in June 2023
Gaetano de Martini
After The Bath
Oil on canvas
I have no further description, at this time
Painter
Gaetano de Martini was born on 28 May 1840 in Benevento. He turned to painting when he was about twenty years old, attending the studio of Achille Vianelli in his native city. In the 1860s Gaetano moved to Naples, where he absorbed the style of Giacinto Gigante, producing a series of watercolor landscape paintings. Gaetano, however, aspired to paint figures and, to pursue this inclination, he started following the work of Tommaso De Vivo e Giuseppe Mancinelli. At this point, his rising career was abruptely interrupted by the premature death of his brother Raffaelle, in 1869. This tragic event led Gaetano to abandon painting for several years. He got back to painting in the 1880s, when his artistic career was eventually launched. At this stage, the influence of Domenico Morelli was decisive. In fact, Morelli encouraged Gaetano to devote to history painting and to neo-Pompeian art, a popular genre in the last part of the century. Recent discoveries in Pompeii held a strong influence on many Italian and European painters (such as Lawrence Alma Tadema), who focused on the sensuality of the ancient Roman culture. De Martini was active in Naples until his death, in 1917.
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Henri Lebasque, 1865 - 1937
Deux femmes et un enfant au bord de la mer/ Two women and a child by the sea, circa 1930
Oil on canvas
19⅝ by 25½ in., 49.8 by 64.8 cm.
Private collection
Painting offered for sale for 50,000 - 70,000 USD in May, 2023
Henri Lebasque (25 September 1865 – 7 August 1937) was a French post-impressionist painter. He was born at Champigné (Maine-et-Loire). He started his education at the École régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers, and moved to Paris in 1886. Around this time, Lebasque met Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir, who later would have a large impact on his work.
Lebasque's vision was coloured by his contact with younger painters, especially Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, founders of the Nabis' Group. From his first acquaintance with Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, Lebasque learnt the significance of a colour theory which stressed the use of complementary colours in shading.
Lebasque was a founding member of the Salon d'Automne in 1903, with his friend Henri Matisse, and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. Two years later, a group of artists exhibited there including Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Ottmann, Édouard Vuillard, and Matisse.
His time in South of France would lead to a radical transformation in Lebasque’s paintings, changing his colour palette forever. Other travels included the Vendée, Normandy, and Brittany.
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Eser Afacan
Guardians Of The Sea
Oil on canvas
135 x 135cm
Private collection
Eser Afacan (born August 8, 1953) is a Turkish artist, painter, and sculptor of Assyrian ethnicity. His father, also an artist, is Assyrian, while his mother is of Greek origin.
Afacan began drawing at a young age. He studied in Manchester, England before moving to Norway in 1978 to study Mathematics and Physics at the University of Bergen. As a student, he met Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum, in whose Oslo studio he subsequently worked.
In 1986, Afacan had his first art display and from that date onwards has exhibited his work in many different countries (Norway, Turkey, USA, Canada). His painting technique uses oil paints to create a transparent coat on the base layers, which are in tempera.
After living between England and Norway until 1985, he moved to the United States before emigrating to Canada in 2003, settling down with his family in Kingston, Ontario.
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Louis-Joseph Courtat (1840 - 1909, French)
Baigneuses (Bathers), c. 1885
Oil on canvas
Height: 80 in (203.2 cm), Width: 99 in (251.46 cm)
Private collection
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