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Summer begins with the solstice on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 marking the astronomical first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Is it really the longest day of the year? Welcome the solstice with some interesting Art.
Robert Patterson (1898-1981)
100% in the Shade, c. 1922
Oil on canvas
24 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. (61.1 x 51.1 cm.)
Private collection
Estimated for US$800 - US$1,200 in August 2023
Robert Patterson was born in Chicago and attended the Chicago Art Institute. Among his teachers there and later were Harvey Dunn, Walt Louderback, Ralph Barton, Pierre Brissaud, and Carl Erickson.
Patterson began his professional career in Chicago, and for some time, directed the Patterson studios there with his brother Loran. In 1922, he came to New York and began doing fashion illustration.
Judge magazine sent him to France in 1924 to do a feature entitled “Betty Goes Abroad.” When Judge failed in 1927, he managed to obtain a fashion illustration assignment from Vogue in Paris, where he stayed until 1934.
Upon his return to the United States, he began to do editorial illustrations for the major magazines, including McCall’s, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, The Ladies’ Home Journal, Redbook, Collier’s, Woman’s Home Companion, and American Magazine, as well as advertising assignments and book illustration. More on Robert Patterson
Gareth Reid, b. 1974
Come here to me, c. 2023
Acrylic on canvas
unframed: 145 by 116cm.; 57 by 45¼in.
Private collection
Sold for 12,700 EUR in May 2023
Gareth Reid was born in Belfast, he studied at University of Ulster, Glasgow School of Art and Florence Academy of Art, and now lives and works in Glasgow.
He has shown on five occasions at the BP Portrait Award in the National Portrait Gallery in London, and in 2007 won the BP Travel Award. Having travelled to Finland, he gave talks on his work in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh and the National Portrait Gallery, London. His work has been published by the NPG.
Previous commissions include Graham Norton for the National Gallery of Ireland, retiral portraits of Sir George Mathewson and Stephen Hester for RBS, Lord Gill and Billy Connolly. His work is held in the collections of RBS, Ralph Lauren, The Old Bailey, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the National Gallery of Ireland.
Gareth is a portraiture and life drawing tutor previously in Con Ed at Glasgow School of Art, and currently at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Strathclyde University. He also runs his his own drawing classes around Glasgow. More on Gareth Reid
Happy days - Limited Edition of 3 Print
Printmaking, Paper on Paper
13.8 W x 19.7 H x 0 D in
Offered for sale for C$779 in June 2023
'Happy days' is an original 5-layer, hand-pulled, silk screen print on Fabriano, 300gsm paper. Inspired by Nathalie’s passion for swimming and the fun and playful energy related to it.
Nathalie Kingdon is a French screen printer artist based in London, working from her studio at Wimbledon Art Studios.
Silk screen printing has always been Nathalie's medium of choice, and she works essentially from images taken and collected from various sources of inspiration which are gathered through the years and in particular the South of France.
Nathalie transforms and enhances imagery with a particular sense of colour, and juxtaposition of shape and form.
She is interested in the new narratives that inevitably take place within the frame of the print, and the journey the process takes her on which naturally and organically evolves.
Nathalie has most recently been experimenting with digitally manipulated and printed images, which complements her traditional methods of screen printing. More on Nathalie Kingdon
Caroline Walker
Threshold, Painted in 2014
Oil on canvas
200 x 300 cm (78 3/4 x 118 1/8 in.)
Private collection
Sold for £927,100 in March 2023
“In a broad sense my work is exploring pre-conceived gender and identity positions in relation to the home, but I paint women because in some ways I am always painting myself, and my own experiences or anxieties.” — Caroline Walker
Caroline Walker’s lustrous oil paintings depict women at work. The artist captures her subjects in quiet, typically invisible moments of labor: They vacuum, hang laundry, wash dishes, water plants, cook meals, and peer through microscopes. The viewer becomes a sort of voyeur, spying on figures who complete mundane chores inside and outside the home. Walker paints from photographs she takes herself—often covertly—as she documents the cultural, economic, and racial realities that face a diverse group of contemporary women. She obtained her BA in painting from the Glasgow School of Art before enrolling at the Royal College of Art, where she graduated with an MA in painting in 2009. Since then, Walker has exhibited in London, Edinburgh, New York, Los Angeles, Milan, and Seoul, among other cities, and her work has been acquired by collections worldwide. More on Caroline Walker
Kezban Arca Batibeki, (Turkish, born 1956)
Sunday Afternoon , c. 2007
Digital collage
150 x 85 cm. (59.1 x 33.5 in.)
Private collection
Born in Istanbul. Kezban Arca Batıbeki graduated from The Fine Arts Faculty of Istanbul Marmara University’s Graphic Arts Department. She worked for the best art and women magazines in Turkey as an illustrator, designed book covers, children books and movie posters. She created an animation film for Swedish State TV and worked as a production designer and photographer on the films production.
1983 she relocated to Oxford and London in the UK to focus on her painting. She featured in twentyone solo exhibitions and participated in numerous Turkish and International group shows. She has been widely regarded as one of the most insightful artists concerned with popular culture involved in the contemporary art scene in Turkey. She works on paintings, photographs, installations and short films about women. She also writes about Art for the newspaper and magazines.
She has twice been presented with the Grand Prize at the Esbank Awards. She lives and works in Istanbul. More on Kezban Arca Batıbeki
1983 she relocated to Oxford and London in the UK to focus on her painting. She featured in twentyone solo exhibitions and participated in numerous Turkish and International group shows. She has been widely regarded as one of the most insightful artists concerned with popular culture involved in the contemporary art scene in Turkey. She works on paintings, photographs, installations and short films about women. She also writes about Art for the newspaper and magazines.
She has twice been presented with the Grand Prize at the Esbank Awards. She lives and works in Istanbul. More on Kezban Arca Batıbeki
Mr STRANGE Jean-Marie GITARD, France
A Summer Day in Marbella, c. 1986
Oil on Canvas
29.5 W x 39.4 H x 0 D in
Sold. Originally listed for C$1,822
Mr STRANGE Jean-Marie GITARD, France is a French artist born in 1964 who lives in the south of France.
After a fairly classic approach as a visual artist, Mr Strange, very largely inspired by surrealism, gradually moved away from classical painting to take an interest in polymorphic forms, mixing painting and sculpture. This is his "Spicture" period.
His artistic evolution leads him to appropriate the digital medium and create what he calls his photos manipulations.
Hybridization, logic of the absurd, subversion, are the artist's favorite entry points.
From birth to death, from the individual to society, he spares no one.
Mr Strange handles surrealism with a certain derision, and offers a personal reflection on the world that is sometimes poetic, sometimes caustic but always sharp. More on Mr Strange
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Lena Kramarić, Croatia
Sold. Originally listed for C$7,194
Lena Kramarić, Dubrovnik, "Exploring the world around me in relation to my own inner world in an introspective and autoreferential way I am trying to connect motifs of the real and surreal, of the actual, imaginary and subconscious in the narrative scenes, leaving enough space to observers for their individual interpretation.
I reflect while I paint. Amongst my works there are those that are obvious and easily comprehensible and yet there are those that are less easily decipherable
Colour and drawing supercede and complement each other in the working process while the paint roller with white tempera partially annuls them, creating transparency or dimness. A painting is created in layers, using trial, error and success to achieve the desired final effect. Taking off and then adding new layers of colour and drawing, a worn-out surface is obtained which is contrasted by bright details.
Private and individual is put above general and collective. I believe that the best way to get through to the observer and to my own self is through a personal prism, which is essential for my overall development as an individual as well as an artist. Sometimes I use text, spontaneous thoughts, which complement or annul the pictorial form." More on Lena Kramarić
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