Charmaine Girelli

'Desert II', Palm Springs, California Woman Artist, Large Proto-Organic Abstract

Signed lower right, 'Betsy Dillard Stroud' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 2000. Betsy Dillard Stroud, AWS, NWS, grew up in Rocky Mount, Virginia with a family straight from the pages of Tennessee Williams and Noel Coward and began painting at the age of eight. She is a signature member and Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society, a signature member of the National Watercolor Society in California and member of numerous prestigious art societies including the Rocky Mountain Watermedia Honor Society, the Western Federation of Watercolor Society, and a former president of the Southwestern Watercolor Society. Stroud was one of 28 American artists from the United States who was invited to exhibit in Nanjing, China in the First International Exhibition of Watermedia Masters in November, 2007. Since 1987, she has judged over sixty-four International, National, Regional, and State Shows including the American Watercolor Society in New York, the National Watercolor Society in California. She has been the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the High Winds Medal of the American Watercolor Society, the Edgar Whitney...

Signed lower left, 'Charmaine Girelli' (American, 20th/21st century) and painted circa 2015. A very large, American School proto-organic abstract comprising dynamic and fluid trailing forms in primary and secondary colors, contrasted against a speckled and scumbled, aqua and sky-blue background. A substantial and lyrical work by this largely self-taught, Palm Springs woman...

Signed lower left, 'Wood' for Virginia Wood (American, 1938-2019), additionally signed, verso, and dated 1968. Virginia Wood studied at the University o...

Signed lower right 'Norden' for Frealon Norden Bibbins (American, 1926-2013) and dated 1976. Additionally signed verso, 'Bibbins'. A substantial 1970's abstract evoking graceful, oceanic forms and comprising fluidly superimposed and adjacent, diaphanous layers of scarlet, rose, lilac, and grass-green against a variegated sunshine-yellow field. This listed California artist, author and musician lived and painted in Alameda and also had a distinguished career with the San Francisco Symphony...

Signed lower left, 'Norden' for Frealon Norden Bibbins (American, 1926-2013) and dated 1976. Inscribed verso, 'Blue Storm', stamped with certification of authenticity and wax seal. A substantial and dynamic work by this California Abstract painter evoking organic floral forms and comprising fluidly superimposed and adjacent, flowing layers of jade, coral and magenta set against an ivory field. This listed California artist, author and musician lived and painted in Alameda and also had a distinguished career with the San Francisco Symphony...

Painted by Frealon Bibbins (American, 1926-2013) circa 1976. Certification of authenticity, verso, with stamped wax seal. A substantial 1970's abstract evoking graceful, oceanic forms and comprising fluidly superimposed and adjacent, diaphanous layers of scarlet, rose, lilac, and grass-green against a variegated sunshine-yellow field. This listed California artist, author and musician lived and painted in Alameda and also had a distinguished career with the San Francisco Symphony...

"The Marriage Proposal " is an abstract style painting by the French artist Maestro Simon Richard Halimi. Through his art, he has a very sharp and unique style of bright and colorful...

40 x 40 cm Translated title: " Amulets " Acrylic paint, oil and sand on canvas. The artist sells the handmade, original and one-of-a-kind piece, but he reserves the right to dup...

Large-scale vertical abstract of brains in a neutral color palette of black & white by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection...

Large-scale abstracted assemblage/mixed media of the artist's materials and partially finished works by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957...

Large-scale abstracted vanitas with goldfish, table, candle and skull by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of his work....

Large-scale abstract with multi-colored brains layered on a neutral background by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of h...