Invaluable

AUGUST 21, 2024

It’s the Zen influence of asymmetry (fukinsei) that’s perhaps most apparent throughout the history of art and can be seen in paintings from Caravaggio to van Gogh. Typical of the orderly repetition of Minimalism, her paintings were also tied to her spirituality , which was drawn from Zen Buddhism and American Transcendentalism.

Paintings

Alfie's Antique Market

MARCH 1, 2018

This exhibition revives the golden age of ocean travel, from ground-breaking engineering and fashionable interiors, to the lifestyle on board and their cultural impact on art, architecture, design and film. With over 250 objects including paintings, sculpture, ship models, fashion, photographs and posters.

Antiques and Decorative Arts

MIR Appraisal

JUNE 12, 2019

In his speech, former President Obama stressed the importance of representation and praised Wiley, who paints subjects he meets and paints them in the context of royal portraiture, to recognize those who “make this country work but are so often out of sight and out of mind.” Last year, a painting by Marshall sold for $21.1

Appraiser/appraisal

Sarasota Antique Buyers

JULY 18, 2024

In particular, we are interested in English and Continental items from the 18th to the 20th centuries, as well as modern and traditional furniture. We understand that each piece’s value depends on various factors, such as age, quality, condition, rarity, period, and maker. Modern art: Our interest extends to modern art pieces.

Textiles

Invaluable

JULY 10, 2024

This venture spawned a revolutionary style of abstractionism that would come to be known as Color Field Painting. “We What is Color Field Painting? Color field painting represents a style of abstract painting that emerged during the 1950s and ‘60s in New York City. Sold for $84,165,000 via Christie’s (May 2014).

Paintings

WorthPoint

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In 1971, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of Hunt’s work, the first for an African-American sculptor. Lot 1589 is an assortment of Shiny Brite Atomic-age ornaments, some of which have glittery mica flakes meant to mimic snow. Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, estimate: $2,000-$3,000.

Antiques and Decorative Arts

Invaluable

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The adage goes that a picture is worth a thousand words, but the most captivating narrative paintings can go one step further and convey layered, complex stories. The beauty of narrative art is that it spans cultures, continents, and centuries, covering everything from myths and legends to religious stories or slices of everyday life.

Paintings

Invaluable

APRIL 14, 2024

Used as a device to catch the eye and create rhythm, repetition is a common technique in Minimalism, with paintings often emphasizing the flatness of the canvas. The main thing wrong with painting is that it is a rectangular plane placed flat against the wall.”

Maker/Artist

Invaluable

APRIL 24, 2024

Some of the most celebrated of the American folk artists include: Shaker Furniture: Simplicity and Functionality Rare Shaker Red-Painted Pine and Figured Maple Two-Drawer Work Table, Probably New Hampshire, c. Set of Seven Round Polychrome Painted Masonite Pennsylvania Dutch-style Hex Signs. Sold for $148 USD via Skinner (July 2010).

Maker/Artist

Invaluable

APRIL 24, 2024

Some of the most celebrated of the American folk artists include: Shaker Furniture: Simplicity and Functionality Rare Shaker Red-Painted Pine and Figured Maple Two-Drawer Work Table, Probably New Hampshire, c. Set of Seven Round Polychrome Painted Masonite Pennsylvania Dutch-style Hex Signs. Sold for $148 USD via Skinner (July 2010).

Maker/Artist

Mark Hill

MAY 3, 2023

‘Dolls & Tureen’, oil on canvas, by Lilian de Glehn Thibaut, painted between 1924 and 1935. Despite being cheap, cold, draughty, damp and largely rat-infested, they became a crucible of modern art and central to the hugely influential School of Paris movement. A still life extraordinaire, and I liked the colours.

Maker/Artist

Invaluable

MARCH 4, 2024

Fuelled by a love of absinthe, they ushered in a new liberal age of avant-garde art from the salons, cafés, and brothels of Montmartre that provided an exciting departure point for Modern Art. This was evident in Arles, where he painted Café Terrace at Night and was living with Gauguin.

Maker/Artist

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 25, 2025

The real spectacle will transpire in Olympia’s upstairs gallery, empty and painted pink “like a sweet box”, Rossi says. Rossi adds that “another inspiration definitely is Last Supper ”, referencing the Biblical scene famously painted by Leonardo da Vinci and countless others. A long table will stretch across the centre of the room.

Testing

Sarasota Antique Buyers

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Worship of icons, as well as their both painting imported into Russia at that time, originates from the Greek Orthodox tradition. Russian icons are typically paintings on wooden boards, which have a religious subject. It is also possible to find icons painted on cloth that is pasted onto these panels.

Antiques and Decorative Arts

Invaluable

MARCH 24, 2025

We rarely notice them, yet they shape how we see the art they enclose. A gilded flourish can elevate a painting to grandeur; a sharp border can sharpen modernist angles. Frames are the unsung storytellers of the art world – silent yet essential. Sold for $15,000 USD via Hess Fine Art (March 2023).

Antiques and Decorative Arts

Invaluable

JUNE 11, 2025

Drawing inspiration from French realists and impressionists, as well as Dutch and French art, The Glasgow Boys were artistic radicals. Characterized by bold brushstrokes and an emphasis on light and color, this was the beginning of modernism in Scotland. This is Scotland’s answer to Impressionism.

Paintings

WorthPoint

JUNE 4, 2025

Despite some minor paint loss to the toes and fingernails, and possible touch-ups to the face paint, the doll still had a strong presence and collector appeal. The 50″ x 100″ canvas from 1976 showed signs of age-related wear but was backed by excellent provenance, tracing back to The Pace Gallery.

Sale

Invaluable

MARCH 19, 2025

And this was achieved with unvarnished honesty, as these new buildings stripped away ornamentation, blurred interior and exterior space, and celebrated the buildings construction in a glorious nod to a new machine age. Bauhaus: Bauhaus School, Dessau. Sold for 900 EUR via Bassenge Auctions (June 2020). Le Corbusier LC4 Chaise Longue, Cassina.

Glass

Invaluable

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

As the 20th century dawned in Brazil, so too did a new modern art that would not only redefine the country’s artistic landscape, but also build cities in its own image. This was a new art for a new Brazil. Roberto Burle Marx – Abstract serigraph print.

Modern Art

Invaluable

JUNE 3, 2025

A revolutionary painter who was one of Britains greatest and most visionary artists, Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851) transformed the foundations of art with his romantically swept landscapes, bold coloring, and an abstract luminosity in his later works that helped lay the foundations of Impressionism and modern art.

Paintings

Invaluable

APRIL 22, 2025

Making liberated female sexuality the linchpin of her art, Tamara de Lempicka s unique style of Art Deco portraiture made her one of the most recognizable artists of the 20th century. And it was in the French capital that Lempicka was first exposed to the burgeoning modern art scene.

Paintings

Invaluable

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In the school manifesto, Gropius stat ed that “the Bauhaus strives to reunite arts and crafts – sculpture, painting, applied art, and handicrafts – as the permanent elements of a new architecture”. When the school moved from Weimar to Dessau he began to teach a class in painting. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Textiles

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APRIL 28, 2025

What started from the homes and studios of a radical group of artists and designers in 1860s England would prize beauty above all else as they sought to escape the ugliness and materialism of the Industrial Age. Whistler, Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge, color lithograph, c. Frederic, Lord Leighton – The Bath of Psyche.

Antiques and Decorative Arts

Invaluable

JUNE 30, 2025

The artist who put the hole in modern art and made it her signature helped shape the direction of 20th-century sculpture. Unlike her contemporaries Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson, Hepworth’s abstract art was often infused with spirituality and nature.

Sculpture

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 6, 2025

Cosmo Whyte transposed an 1860s photograph of two anonymous Buffalo Soldiers onto an ethereal curtain of hand-painted steel beads, suspended from a steel frame and inserted in the fort's historic barracks that would have been for white soldiers.

Maker/Artist