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Luciano Castelli, Swiss (1951 - ) Insured $ 15,000, Offered $5,750
born 1951 in Lucern, Switzerland
Luciano Castelli became well known between 1979 and 1983 as a
representative member of the Berlin expressive, gestic school of
painting, known as the New Wilds (neo fauves). But he had already established
an earlier artistic career in Lucern, around Franz Gertsch, and
in 1972 he had sculptures in the first "documenta" exhibition
there. In addition, his friendship with the Parisian
photographer Pierre Mollinier had led to an early encounter with
photography.
While sculptures, paintings and large-format
drawings soon found their way into international
exhibitions -
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshorn
Museum in
Washington and the Musée de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, for
example .
The Musée de la Photographie Européene in Paris
opened with his
work. In the tradition of self-portrait he places his
person in
the scene, in a photograph, on the canvas or on
paper, transformed, made-up or masked, thus inventing himself and
others as objects of desire. Courtesy of Galerie Ro
from Mutual Art:
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| Luciano Castelli 1988 52" x 42" Luciano & Salomé, Oil on Arches Paper |
Sergei Bugaev AFRIKA Insured $24,000 Offered $6,000
He was born in Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea, and in the early 1980s moved to Leningrad, where he met and became friends with leaders of the art scene there, such as the painter Timur Novikov and musician Boris Grebenshchikov.
Shortly thereafter he adopted the artistic moniker "Afrika" and began
working as an artist himself. In 1987 he starred as Bananan, the lead
character in the groundbreakingly avant garde film Assa by Russian film director Sergei Solovyov.
Afrika works mainly in performance and installation art.
His 1993 project "Krimania" took the form of an initial performance,
which involved the artist spending three weeks in a mental institution
in Simferopol, Crimea, at the end of which he staged an exhibition for the patients and staff of the hospital.
The second part of the project was a major exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna
(MAK), entitled "Krimania: Icons, Monuments, Mazáfaka." The work
addresses the issue of collective versus individual identity of the Soviet citizen after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
In 1999 Afrika represented Russia at the 48th Venice Biennale. He currently lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Miami and New York. Wikipedia
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| Sergei Bugaev/Afrika MOSCOW 29" x 40 1/2", Oil on Canvas |
Elvira Bach Insured $7,500 SOLD
Elvira Bach (born 22 June 1951 in Neuenhain, Germany) is a postmodernist German painter known for her colourful images of women.[1][2] A member of the Junge Wilde art movement, she lives and works in Berlin.[2] wikipedia
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| Elvira Bach 1987 17" x 21" Gouache on Paper |
Philip Braham $ 575
Philip Braham is a British painter. Philip Braham has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Royal Scottish Academy. Numerous works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'SULPHUR WIND' sold at McTear's 'The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction (Sunday)' in 2014. There have been Several articles about Philip Braham, including 'Visual art reviews: Heirlooms | The Garden of Eichstatt 1613 | In Japan | Philip Braham' written by Duncan Macmillan for The Scotsman in 2011.mutualart
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| Philip Braham Oil on Paper |
Previous works purchased at the Raab Galerie, London
Fred Stonehouse SOLD
Born in 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Fred Stonehouse's interest in mysticism and the other worldly started early. In his youth, he was surrounded by Sicilian family members telling stories of psychic visions, ghosts, the evil eye, and saints of the Catholic Church. These stories blended with his own biographical anecdotes, to develop a self styled mythology based in a kind of dream logic. Nonsensical narratives become completely rational in the imagined world of his art, as if when a thing appears in a dream as something else but is still intuitively understood to be the thing replaced. Stonehouse uses this dream logic, similar to the Magical Realism of Latin American literature, to fashion surreal characters steeped in uncertain allegory that are at once touching, cynical, humorous, and filled with despair.
Fred
Stonehouse's work has been widely exhibited around the world. It can
be found in the collections of the singers Sheryl Crow and Madonna as
well as the Milwaukee Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. His work has also appeared in the
pages of Blab! and Juxtapose magazines. IPCNY
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| Fred Stonehouse 1989 Acrylic on Wood |
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Stephen Westfall $400
Born: 1953
Hometown: Schenectady, New York, NY
Lives and Works: New York, NY
Education:
MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Stephen Westfall Bio
About The Artist
Artist and art critic
Stephen Westfall describes himself as a "Poppish, post-minimalist
geometric painter." He insists that the unique way in which he skews and
manipulates the shapes in his colorful, hard edge geometric paintings
is the result of undiagnosed "ADD and symptoms of dyslexia." Instead of
working on one painting at a time, he simultaneously works in segments
on several, creating disjointed grids and vibrant canvases. Westfall’s
paintings resemble semaphores, but their apparently simple patterning,
upon closer inspection, reveals their juxtapositions and intersections
of color to be incredibly complicated and highly considered, undermining
the viewer’s expectations at every juncture. Works such as his 2009 oil
and alkyd painting Soon use a repeating square motif to
provide some sense of concrete firmament, while the X-shaped motif
below, in yellow, red, blue, green, and white, shifts maniacally,
destabilizing the image with kaleidoscopic movement.
Westfall
is the recipient of the 2009 Rome Prize Fellowship and was a Guggenheim
Fellow in 2007, as well as the Award in Painting from the National
Academy of Arts & Letters. His work is found in the collections of
The Albertina Museum in Vienna, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bon Marche, and the Library of
Congress. He has exhibited internationally since the mid-1980s.
Stephen Westfall Gallery Art
Galleries
Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Stephen Westfall Permanent Collections
Select Permanent Collections
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bon Marche, Paris, France
Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Microsoft, Seattle, WA
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Rubin Museum, New York, NY
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA artspace
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bon Marche, Paris, France
Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Microsoft, Seattle, WA
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Rubin Museum, New York, NY
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA artspace
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| Stephen Westfall 1984 10" x 13 1/2" Oil on Paper |
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| Jean Volovsek, Oil on Canvas on Board 26" x 22" 1963 School of Paris |
Jean Volovsek $ 975
Czech/Argentinian Painting Circa 1963
Mikhail Gubin $ 475
Bio/Resume
MIKHAIL GUBIN was born in Kharkov,
Soviet Union /now Ukraine/ in 1953. For period of time 1961-1970 Mikhail
has attended art school and private training workshops in art and
photography. In the period of 1978-1981 he attended Art and Tech College
in Zagorsk at Moscow region. He brought his family to New York in 1989
and became a U.S. citizen in 1995. In current of the next years until
today Mikhail actively pursue an art. His activities include painting,
drawing, collage, sculpture and photography.
Throughout of his residence in the USA he has had 30 solo exhibitions and participated in more then 200 group shows. His memberships include Audubon Artists Inc, Silvermine Guild of Artists and National Collage Society.
Throughout of his residence in the USA he has had 30 solo exhibitions and participated in more then 200 group shows. His memberships include Audubon Artists Inc, Silvermine Guild of Artists and National Collage Society.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775[a] – 19 December 1851) was a British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.[1] Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light"[2] and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. Some of his works also are cited as examples of Abstract Art existing prior to recognition in the early twentieth century.[3] Wikipedia  It is widely known that in the 1940's Gimbels Dept Store sold fake Turner sketches. This piece is dated 1930, has a catalogue number and is described as being a gift to Jock Whitney. This is a mystery, as well as a very pretty pair of drawings to hang proudly. $500 
Theodore TihanskyMonhegan Island, ME Ted
Tihansky received his formal art training at the Art Students League in
New York City, Paier College of Art, and Lyme Academy of Fine Art in
Connecticut. He has also studied with landscape painter Don Stone,
portraitist Aaron Shikler, Ronald Sherr, and Harvey Dinnerstein, all
internationally known artists. He has taught at the South County Art
Association and conducted private classes in Newport. In 1991 Mr.
Tihanshky was awarded the John Stobart Landscape Fellowship with the
concurrent opportunity to show at the Lyme Academy Fine Art Gallery. In
November 1995, he opened the Theodore Tihansky Fine Art &
Performance Gallery on Franklin Street in Newport, Rhode Island at which
he received wide recognition for his “Collaboration of the Arts”
production. In September 2000 he returned to the Art Students League in
New York City to hone his techniques. Returning to Maine, Mr.
Tihansky spent his first winter as a sternman on a lobster boat and
spent his free time painting the harsh and splendid scenes of the
island. In his words, "The paintings are the end products; what is
important to me is the moment, the experience that I have because of my
painting. The people I meet and the things I do are the reason."
BJORN RYEBorn in Los Angeles and raised in Utah, he traveled widely, living in San Francisco, New York City, Athens, Munich, and London. After studying art history and creative writing at Columbia University, he published two novels and wrote art criticism for "Artforum" magazine. In 1989, he returned to the Santa Barbara area and began to paint landscapes so successfully that he had sell-out exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara in 1997 and 1998. Askart.comInsured $75,000, Offered $39,000
WILLIAM LOUIS OTTE Insured $12,000, Offered $35001871 - 1957On December 6, 1871,William L. Otte was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. As a young man, Otte worked as a successful stockbroker in New York City while studying part-time at the New York School of Art under painter Robert Henri (1865-1929). When he decided to start a fulltime career as an artist in 1913, he moved to Santa Barbara, CA. Up to his death in 1957, he continued to paint landscapes of the surrounding area. Sullivan Goss Gallery HENRI DE KRUIF $225Etcher, painter, lithographer. Born in Grand Rapids, Ml on Feb. 17, 1882. DeKruif began his art training at the AIC under Vanderpoel, the Holmes School of Illustration, and continued in NYC at the ASL under Frank V. DuMond, Beal, and Luis Mora. In 1903 he studied at the Hope College (Michigan) and was employed at Grand Rapids Advertising Company until 1907. Moving to Los Angeles from the Midwest in 1911, he continued as a commercial artist with the Merril Advertising Company. During this period he studied with Stanton MacDonald-Wright while experimenting with various modern art idioms. He was active in Laguna Beach and Los Angeles until his death in the latter on July 7, 1944. Member: LAAA; Laguna Beach AA; Calif. WC Society; Chicago Society of Etchers; Calif. Art Club; Calif. PM; Calif. Society of Etchers; Group of Eight. Exh: LACMA, 1922, 1929 (solos); LA Public Library, 1923 (solo); Cannell & Chaffin Gallery (LA), 1924; Laguna Beach AA, 1924-35; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1925 (1st prize); Calif. PM, 1926 (bronze medal); Littles Gallery (LA), 1930; Stendahl Galleries (LA), 1936, 1939. Collection: LACMA; San Diego Museum; Orange Co. (CA) Museum; Library of Congress; Beaumont (CA) Public Library (murals); LA Public Library. AAA 1919-33; WWAA 1936-41; Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1918-1978; Ben; Fid; SCA; Art Digest, 8-1-1944 (obit); LA Times, 7-6-1944 (obit).
CLYDE SCOTT Offered $4500A Southern California landscape artist, Clyde Eugene Scott was born in Bedford, Iowa and headed West in 1910, having studied in Boston with Richard Andrews and Charles Heil at the Boston Museum School and with E. Felton Brown at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Until 1933, he worked for the Commercial Art Company in San Francisco and lived across the Bay in Mill Valley. Then he moved to Los Angeles and became a special effects artist at 20th Century Fox Studios until 1950 when he retired and devoted himself full time to painting desert landscapes. He established his studio near Los Angeles at Chatsworth where landscape was often filmed for western movies. He took extensive painting trips into Arizona and Utah and throughout California and became active in the California Art Club, plein-air landscape painters as well as in arts organizations in Laguna Beach and Santa Monica and the Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles, which he served as President from 1938 to 1940. He was fascinated by natural forms and changing atmosphere, and these subjects are reflected in his many desert landscapes. Sources: Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
WALLACE FISHER $575Wallace R. Fisher was born in California in the thirties. From the earliest age, he studied American, European, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Jewish and Russian artists. Now, his own paintings have been displayed in Galleries across the states and sold worldwide. Wallace Fisher's biography as an Early California Artist can be viewed and read in the Smithsonian Institution. He currently resides in the mountains of California. Much of the nature he has painted captured a glimpse of history as urban civilization has developed over so many of the beautiful scenes his state beheld. His work truly follows the impressionistic style of the Masters. There are over 4000 original paintings by Fisher in the hands of collectors and art appreciators. Fisher was influenced by various techniques during the various periods of his life. He has painted abstract, modern, impressionism, traditional, western, still life, and floral. His mediums have ranged from oil, acrylic, pen and ink, watercolor, charcoal, pastel, pencil, and etching. He has been categorized with many of California's famous artists and is known internationally. His art has won many shows and awards in the West. Fisher's most recent recognition for 2002 was in the 33rd annual art show held in the Fisk Auditorium of the San Bernardino County Museum. He won the Jurors' Choice Award for one of his snow scenes. ("Ode to Winter") Wallace Fisher is a member of the OPA (Oil Painters of America), LPAPA (Laguna Plein Air Painters Association), and the CAC (California Art Club).
Maria Martinez: World-Renowned Potter of San Ildefonso Pueblo
Maria Martinez (1884 - 1980)
Of Tewa heritage of the San Ildefonso Pueblo in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, Maria Martinez became world-renowned for her black-on-black pottery. Learning to make pots as a child from her aunt, Tia Nicolasa, and beginning with clay dishes she made for her playhouse, Maria was known as a potter among her peers. In 1908, Dr. Edgar Hewett, New Mexico archaeologist and director of the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, had excavated some 17th century black pottery shards and, seeking to revive this type of pottery, Hewett was led to Maria. Through trial and error, Maria rediscovered the art of making black pottery. She found that smothering a cool fire with dried cow manure trapped the smoke, and that by using a special type of paint on top of a burnished surface, in combination with trapping the smoke and the low temperature of the fire resulted in turning a red-clay-pot black. Maria, who made but never painted the pottery, collaborated with her husband Julian, who not only assisted in the gathering of the clay and the building the fire, and, most importantly, painting the motif on the pottery. Julian painted Maria's pottery until his death in 1943. During the early years of pottery making, Julian broke away from farming to became a janitor at the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe. It was here that he and Maria studied the pottery in the display cases, observing form, motif and technique. Maria was always deeply connected with her pueblo of San Ildefonso, with the traditional life of a tribal member, partaking in tribal ceremonies and religious activities. Although she was successful in Santa Fe selling her pottery, she preferred living in her ancestral home. Maria was very unselfish with her talent, and she gave pottery lessons to other women in her village as well as in to potters in neighboring pueblos, thereby providing a new source of income to many. After her husband's death, she worked with her sons, Popovi Da and Adam, and her daughter-in-law, Santana in continuing her work throughout her life. Maria Martinez became so admired for her skill that she was specially invited to the White House four times, and she received honorary doctorates from the University of Colorado and New Mexico State University. She is considered one of the most influential Native Americans of the 20th century. In the 1920's my mother spent the summers riding with her cousin on the old Native American trails in New Mexico. The pot below is from one of those trips - the San Ildefonso Pueblo was one of her stops. The Medicine Man painting that follows the pot was collected then as well. 
Fine Quality Maria Martinez Pot circa 1920's - 30's $2200ALBERT WATSON $1,975
 Monkey in Mask image 4" x 4" $1975 | Albert Watson (born 1942) is a Scottish photographer well known for his fashion, celebrity and art photography, and whose work is featured in galleries and museums worldwide. He has shot over 200 covers of Vogue around the world and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s. Photo District News named Watson one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time, along with Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, among others.[1] Watson has won numerous honors, including a Lucie Award,[2] a Grammy Award, the Hasselblad Masters Award and three ANDY Awards,.[3] He was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2010.[4]He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of a physical education teacher and a boxer. He grew up in Penicuik, Midlothian, and attended the Rudolf Steiner School in Edinburgh and Lasswade High School, followed study at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and the Royal College of Art in London. wikipedia  MAX DUPAIN $2,750
However, it was not until the 1970s that the photograph received wide recognition. It was purchased in 1976 by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and has become a national icon.[3] Later yearsDuring World War II Dupain served with the Royal Australian Air Force in both Darwin and Papua New Guinea helping to create camouflage.The war affected Dupain and his photography, by creating in him a greater awareness of truth in documentary. In 1947, these feelings were reinforced when he read a book Grierson on Documentary which defined the need for photography without pretence. The catchcry was "the creative treatment of actuality". Dupain was keen to restart the studio with this new perspective and abandon what he called the "cosmetic lie of fashion photography or advertising illustration". Refusing to return to the "cosmetic lie" of advertising, Dupain said: "Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create."Dupain's documentary work of this period is exemplified in his photograph "Meat Queue". He used a more naturalistic style of photography, "capturing a moment of everyday interaction [rather than] attempting any social comment".[4] Dupain also worked extensively for the University of New South Wales[5] and CSR Limited and made many trips to the interior and coast of northern Australia. However, apart from his war service he rarely left Australia, the first time not until 1978, when he was 67, and even then it was to photograph the new Australian Embassy in Paris, designed by his longtime friend and associate Harry Seidler.[6] He wrote, "I find that my whole life, if it is going to be of any consequence in photography, has to be devoted to that place where I have been born, reared and worked, thought, philosophised and made pictures to the best of my ability. And that's all I need".[7] In the 1950s the advent of the new consumerism meant that there was plenty of promotional photography for advertising and he attracted clients from magazines, advertising agencies and industrial firms. In between this he devoted time to pursue his love of architecture, and began architectural photography, which he continued most of his life.  ERICA LENNARD $575
For over twenty five years she has explored the nature of beauty and the beauty of nature, Lennard has photographed the majestic formal gardens of Europe, Zen Gardens of Japan The Imperial Gardens of China, as well as the greatest archeological and spiritual monuments in the world the pyramids of Egypt, the temples of Angkor Wat, the monasteries of Ladakh and Bhutan, and the palaces of India. Her re-interpretation of beauty also led her to a successful career as a fashion photographer working for such magazines as Vogue and developing the advertising campaigns of some of the greatest designers of the American fashion history, most notably Perry Ellis. Born in New York City in 1950, she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute before moving to Paris where her career began. There her first book was published, 'Les Femmes Les Soeurs', her first exhibitions took place and her first assignments in fashion and portraiture began for Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Interview and Rolling Stone to name a few. She began to do her work on gardens, photographing the classic gardens of Le Notre, while still living in Paris and then started her first of many books on Gardens and Interiors with Artists Gardens, published by Harry Abrams in New York in 1992. Over the years her work has been exhibited internationally, her books published in several countries, including the immensely successful 'Art of Doing Nothing' and she has contributed to the worlds leading magazines, and continues to do special commercial assignments.  CHRIS VERENE $675
Verene was born in Galesburg, Illinois and is the son of the philosopher Donald Verene. He spent his teens and twenties in Atlanta, Georgia and studied art at Georgia State University. Verene moved to Brooklyn in 1999. In 2000, he was included the Whitney Biennial with his 1998 series Camera Club and the performance installation piece, The Self-Esteem Salon. That same year his monograph about Galesburg and his mother's family in the Georgia and Florida, Chris Verene, was published by Twin Palms Press. The New York Times reviewed his self-titled book in 2000. "Chris Verene is this year's most appealing newcomer, a diamond in the rough whose square color pictures record his family and friends in candid, unvarnished fashion. The book gets its gritty grip on reality by sticking to place, which happens to be Galesburg, Ill. The tacky interiors, worn clothes and forlorn expressions in the pictures suggest that all is not well in Galesburg, but Verene adds a commentary that tries its best to be upbeat and compassionate. The effect is reminiscent of Mark Goodman's visual diary of life in Millerton, N.Y., A Kind of History, which was published without fanfare a year ago. But the larger shadow hanging over Verene's work belongs to Diane Arbus, which is not a bad thing".wikipedia CYNTHIA VAIDEN GUEST, MY WORK“ For decades, Cynthia Guest has been creating imagery that inspires the viewer to reconsider the ordinary. Her distinctive style and bold semi-abstract aesthetic dominates any subject she chooses." P. Guest
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