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Item Ships From: New York
Untitled
By Edward Avedisian
Located in New York, NY
ca. 1965
Acrylic on canvas
54 1/4 x 54 in. (137.8 x 137.2 cm)
Signed, verso
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
New York Harbor
By Guy Wiggins
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Guy Carleton Wiggins adopted the bright palette and lively brushwork of the impressionist movement, and is best known for his New York City snow scenes...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
On the Mountain Side
By Chauncey Foster Ryder
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Chauncey F Ryder
Category
19th Century Tonalist New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bearsville NY" Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
"Bearsville NY" Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976)
Bearsville NY
26 1/4 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas
Singed lower right, t...
Category
1940s American Modern New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Carl Robert Holty
Located in Lawrence, NY
Pastel on paper
The German-born American Abstractionist Carl Robert Holty became known for his biomorphic abstract forms as well as his geometric abstractions that he painted with a ...
Category
1930s Bauhaus New York - Paintings
Materials
Pastel
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Contemporary
David Atkins (1910 – 2012)
Subway Train Departure
24 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas, c. 1960s
Signed lower r...
Category
1960s American Modern New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Comme Avant, As Before" Abstract Colorful Portrait Street Art Pop Art on Canvas
By J.M. Robert
Located in New York, NY
This particular piece depicts an anonymous portrait of a beautiful woman. Inspired by the every day, JM Robert strives to create paintings that mimic the fla...
Category
2010s Street Art New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Signed Impressionist Italian Oil Painting of Lake Como Framed Original
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist painting of Lake Como, Italy. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1960s Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Majestic Antique English Mt Fuji Winter Mountain Seascape Signed Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible 19th century painting by Thomas Hodgson Liddell (1860 - 1925). Oil on canvas of Mt Fuji from the sea. Handsomely framed and ready to hang. Signed lower right.
Category
1880s Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Flutter Ascension Blue" Blue Metallic Butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Flutter Ascension in Blue" Butterflies
Black outlined white and light blue butterflies on a gold and silver etched background in an antique frame.
Unframed: 39.5 x 32.5...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Antique American Signed Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract expressionist painting. Framed in a silver modernist molding. Signed lower right.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Cubist Abstract Seascape Framed Fish Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive early American modernist abstract still life. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1960s Cubist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Impressionist Coastal Seascape Framed Nautical Sailboat Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist seascape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1980s Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maelstrom
By Ford Crull
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“It is terrifying to paint. When you start out, you are faced with this great unknown. And you think, am I ever going to paint again? Yet, as you work, it starts to formulate itself...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Photographic Film, Oil Crayon, Oil
Evening Glow Antique American Impressionist California Landscape Oil Painting
By Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive American impressionist landscape by Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff (1886 - 1933) . Great colors and nicely painted. Housed in a period giltwood frame. Oil on canvas....
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Waterfall Bearsville NY Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Cubism
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Waterfall Bearsville NY Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Cubism
Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976)
Waterfall, Bearsville NY
40 1/2 30 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed lower...
Category
1940s American Modern New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Interior Scene Framed Abstract Art Studio Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
1960s Cubist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Ascension Rain Storm" Blue Butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Ascension Rain Storm" Blue Butterflies
Black outlined silver and blue butterflies on a light blue etched silver and dark blue metallic background.
Unframed: 72 x 84 inc...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Classic Hunt Slonem "Untitled" Green Amazon Bird on Gold
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Untitled" Green Amazon Bird on Gold
A painted Green Amazon Bird on a Gold scored metallic background in Hunt Slonem's old style in an antique frame.
Unframed: 10 x 8 in...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Flight" Pink & Yellow Butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Flight" Pink & Yellow Butterflies
Black outlined light pink and yellow butterflies on a pink etched background in a gold antique frame.
Unframed: 15 x 12 inches
Framed:...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
She Walks in Beauty Like the Night
By Ford Crull
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“It is terrifying to paint. When you start out, you are faced with this great unknown. And you think, am I ever going to paint again? Yet, as you work, it starts to formulate itsel...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil
Untitled
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Loy Luo is a Chinese artist based in New York. She received a Master’s Degree from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in 2010 and taught art at the Beijing Institute of Scie...
Category
2010s Abstract New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Interior Scene Young Woman Portrait Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century modernist interior scene. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed with a monogram. Really impressive quality and a great subject.
Category
1960s Modern New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Horse Carousel Animal Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive early American modernist painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Framed Beach Scene Signed Elegant Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American impressionist beach scene painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
1920s Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Open Sea" impressionist perspective of a sailor in the vast blue Atlantic Ocean
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Open Sea" is an impressionistic perspective of a sailor in the vast blue Atlantic Ocean.
Frame Dimensions 29.25 x 41in
Artist Bio
Ben Fenske (b. 1978), although a native of Minn...
Category
2010s Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "2 East Lake" Hot Pink Bunnies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "2 East Lake" Hot Pink Bunnies
Two black gestured black bunnies on a solid hot pink background. Framed in an antique wooden gold frame.
Unframed: 14 x 10 inches
Framed: ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Mid Century Modern American Abstract Figurative Surreal Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstracted figurative painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Great color and composition. Nicely framed in a period modernist molding.
Category
1960s Modern New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Totem" Bunny on Multicolored Metallic
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Toem" Bunny on Multicolored Metallic
Single gestured black bunny on a multicolored rainbow background with mixed metallics. Framed in an antique wooden gold frame.
Unfr...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Cardinals" Two Red Birds
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Cardinals" Two Red Birds
Two red Cardinal birds sitting on a branch over a gold metallic and blue etched background. Framed in an antique frame.
Unframed: 10 x 8 inche...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
By Gerrit Sinclair
Located in New York, NY
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
Gerrit Van Sinclair (1890 – 1955)
Parade
20 x 15 inches
Oil on board, c. 1940s
Signed lower right
Fram...
Category
1940s American Realist New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Hunt Slonem "Red Bayou Teche" Landscape
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Red Bayou Teche" Landscape
Abstract landscape painting featuring shades of red, pink, orange, and blues framed in an antique gold frame.
Unframed: 22.5 x 18.5 inches
Fr...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Finches Purple Whydah" Multicolored Birds on Gold
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Finches Purple Whydah" Multicolored Birds on Gold metallic background.
Multicolored Finches birds on a metallic gold background. Framed in an antique gold frame.
Unfr...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Liquid Abstractions Set Of Four Abstract Paintings
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Liquid Abstractions Set Of Four Small Abstract Paintings
All 4 are unframed and each measure 7.75"H x 7.75"W x 1.5" each artist signed verso.
Eduardo Guelfenbein (born 16 June 1953) ...
Category
2010s Abstract New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Visions of Johanna" colorful summertime portrait of nude woman swimming/posing
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Visions of Johanna" is a colorful summertime portrait of nude woman swimming in the backgrounds and posing in the foreground.
Nick Weber (b.1971), living and painting in Springs, N...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Study 4 for Silent Running
By David Stern
Located in New York, NY
Figure Study for Silent Running #4
David Stern (Germany, b. 1956)
Acrylics on canvas
38 inches by 48 inches
Hand signed by artist, certificate of authenticity available
Colors: Purpl...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
By James McCracken
Located in New York, NY
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
James McCracken (1875 – 1967)
WPA Landscape
28 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas, c. 1930s
Signed lower right
...
Category
1930s American Modern New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Woodstock Modern Dudensing
By Konrad Cramer
Located in New York, NY
Still Life American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Woodstock Modern Dudensing
Konrad Cramer (1888 – 1963)
"Black Glass Bowl and Napkin"
16 ½ x 14 inches
Oil on Board
Singed lower...
Category
1920s American Realist New York - Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Zhao Wang Animal Original Oil On Canvas "Company 1"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Company 1
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 8 x 8 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is unstretched
Year: 2000 Circa
Artist: Zhao Wang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Large Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive mid century abstract expressionist painting. Love the colors and impasto. Framed. Oil on canvas.
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract, Landscape Painting by Yangyang Pan 'Sultry Night'
By Yangyang Pan
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Sultry Night' 2024 by Chinese/Canadian artist Yangyang Pan. Oil on canvas, 34 x 52 in. This beautiful abstract-expressionistic landscape painti...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Abstract, Coastal Seascape Painting by Eugene Healy, 'Stonington Point'
By Eugene Healy
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Stonington Point' by Eugene Healy, 2024. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 60 in. / Frame: 48.5 x 60.5 in. This landscape painting features a...
Category
2010s Abstract New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Apple, Still Life
Located in Dix Hills, NY
A watercolor meditation on the still life beauty of an apple. Everyday moments artfully celebrated.
An original watercolor hand signed on the back by the Artist.
Category
2010s New York - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Avocado II
Located in Dix Hills, NY
A watercolor meditation on the still life beauty of an avocado. Everyday moments artfully celebrated.
Original watercolor hand signed on the back by the Artist.
Category
2010s New York - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American Plein Aire Impressionist Signed Landscape Framed Oil Painting
By Edward S Annison
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist flower landscape oil painting by Edward S Annison. Oil on board, circa 1910. Signed. Image size, 9L x 12H. Housed i...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ca' d'Oro Venice, Celebration, Watercolor Painting
Located in Dix Hills, NY
An original Venice watercolor painting. Celebrating the exquisite facade of the Ca' d' Oro palace located on the Grand Canal. Inspired by th...
Category
2010s New York - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Distance and Desire, Venice, Watercolor Painting
Located in Dix Hills, NY
An evocative watercolor painting of Venice, Italy. Depicting a balcony on the Ca' d'Oro palace facing the Grand Canal.
Inspired by th...
Category
2010s New York - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Colliers Magazine 1947 American Scene Social Realism Modern Families in the Snow
Located in New York, NY
Colliers Magazine 1947 American Scene Social Realism Modern Families in the Snow
Katherine Wiggins (American 20th Century)
"The Shrimp"
20 x 24 inches
Egg tempera on masonite. c. 1...
Category
1940s American Realist New York - Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Masonite
Takashi Murakmai flowers drawing 2018 (Murakami The Octopus Eats its Own Leg).
By Takashi Murakami
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Takashi Murakmai Flowers Drawing 2018:
A unique Takashi Murakami hand-drawing featuring the artist’s 2 most iconic motifs: Flowers & DOB. This work was executed in 2018 on the interior front page of the 2018 exhibition catalogue: Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg. Hand signed and dated.
Medium: Felt tip marker drawing on a removed interior exhibition catalog page (Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg).
Approximate Dimensions. 11.25 x 9.5 inches.
Signed and dated in ink on the lower edge. Unique.
Very good overall condition.
Provenance:
Private collection, Washington, D.C.
Swann Auction galleries New York.
Takashi Murakami (American/Japanese, b.1962) is a painter and sculptor famous for his integration of Fine Art, commercialism, Japanese aesthetics, and cultural criticism into his work. Murakami received his BFA, MFA, and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he studied Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting). He first gained recognition as a sculptor during the early 1990s, exploring otaku (the Japanese term for an obsession with anime and cartoons) and the contradictions between contemporary Japanese society and American culture in his work.
In 1996, he created the Hiropon Factory in Japan, which later developed into Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., a large art-making and artist management corporation. Murakami is also a curator and a critical observer of Japanese art. In 2000, he founded the "superflat" movement, a post-modern style drawing inspiration from Japanese manga (comics created in Japan), graphic design...
Category
2010s Pop Art New York - Paintings
Materials
Ink
"California Mountains, " Orrin White, Impressionism, Southwest Desert Landscape
By Orrin A. White
Located in New York, NY
Orrin White
California Mountain Landscape
Signed lower right
Oil on board
8 x 10 inches
A nationally known landscape painter, who spent the prime of his career in California, Orrin White was born in Hanover, Illinois. He was artistically inclined at an early age but did not pursue an art career until he was in his thirties. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Notre Dame University...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Woman in a Forest Glade" Robert Lewis Reid, American Impressionist, French Lady
By Robert Reid
Located in New York, NY
Robert Lewis Reid
Woman in a Forest Glade
Oil on canvas
36 x 27 inches
Provenance:
Petersen Galleries, Beverly Hills, California
Hirschl & Adler Gal...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Buttermilk Bay, Cape Cod, " Georgina Klitgaard, Woodstock School Female WPA
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976)
Buttermilk Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1933
Oil on canvas
18 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York
Harold Ordway Rugg
Private Collection, Western New York
Georgina Berrian was born in Spuyten Duyvil, New York in 1893. She was educated at Barnard College...
Category
1930s American Modern New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Vermont Landscape with Birch Trees" Luigi Lucioni, Realist Forest Scene
By Luigi Lucioni
Located in New York, NY
Luigi Lucioni
Vermont Landscape with Birch Trees, 1936
Signed and dated lower left and inscribed indistinctly verso
Oil on board
20 x 15 7/8 inche...
Category
1930s Realist New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Tugboat at Dock, " Reginald Marsh, Modern WPA Industrial Ship
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh
Tugboat at Dock, circa 1937
Signed lower right
Watercolor and pencil on paper
13 3/4 x 20 inches
Housed in a Lowy frame.
Provenance:
Sotheby'...
Category
1930s Modern New York - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"Prospect Park, Brooklyn, " Nathan Hoffman, New York City Impressionist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Born in Russia, the son of Friede (1878 – 1956) and Benjamin Hoffman (1878 – a. 1942). Benjamin was a dealer in mineral and seltzer water and the family resided on Snediker Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, just down the streetfrom the home where George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) was born.
This area of Brooklyn, known as Brownsville, “witnessed the development of one of the largest communities of Eastern European Jewish immigrants during the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20 th century.” Today, little remains of this once thriving Jewish section of Brooklyn, which today houses many commercial and repair businesses.
Hoffman studied at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design and in the art program at Cooper Union. His work at the National Academy received praise, and in 1921 he was awarded the 2nd prize and an honorable mention from the John Armstrong Chaloner Paris Prize Foundation at the National Academy, which allowed the recipient to study in Paris, France for as long as five years. The following year he was awarded the 1 st prize in the competition (with The Reform Advocate running the headline “Young Jew Wins Art Prize”) as well as the Suydam Bronze Medal for his achievements in the Academy’s Men’s Night Class. In 1923 he was residing in Long Branch, New Jersey, when he was awarded 4th place in the Chaloner competition.
Early on, Hoffman exhibited his work throughout the city, including in 1925 with the recently organized Society of Independent Artists. He also received several solo exhibitions during the first part of his career, including one at Ferargil Galleries in 1929. In the spring of 1930 a solo exhibition of his portraits, including paintings and drawings, was held at at Babcock Galleries, where a reviewer noted: “Portraiture is obviously Mr. Hoffman’s specialty… his best work is characterized by a sensitive appreciation of character set down in a vigorous decisive statement.
Later that same year, in August, he participated in Babcock’s summer exhibition where reviewer Jerome Klein, writing for The Baltimore Sun, felt Hoffman’s and other artists work was already becoming old fashioned, remarking “…if an effort toward accomplishment is to be made, it must be in the language of today. It is for that reason that such contemporaries as Eugene Higgins and Nathan Hoffman, in this show, seem artists of a bygone era…” The onset of the Great Depression appears to have slowed his success, as was the case for many up-and-coming artists.
By 1939 Hoffman had become a gallerist in addition to being a painter, operating the collective exhibition space “Sutton Gallery,” which was originally located at 358 East 57th Street. There Hoffman exhibited his own works as well as those created by other prominent New York artists including David Burliuk (1882 – 1967), Charles C. Curran (1861 – 1942), Louis Eilshemius (1864 – 1941), Ann Goldthwaite (1869 – 1944), Maurice Kish (1895 – 1987), Lawrence Lebduska (1894 – 1966), Bradford Perin and Ellis Wilson...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Still Life Flowers Oil on Canvas Painting, Signed and Framed
Located in Plainview, NY
A beautiful large oil on canvas still life painting depicting two vases filled with lovely flowers in vibrant colors with a green background. The painting is finely presented in a cu...
Category
20th Century Modern New York - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flora surrounded by her nymphs, in a landscape of ancient ruins. Il Mascacotta
By Gennaro Greco
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figures painted by Abraham Hondius
Gennaro’s paintings invented a variety of ruined Architecture and other magnificent constructions and made superb underground places and imaginary prisons with horrible appearances,” writes Bernardo de Domenici in his 1743 Vite de Pittore, Scultori, ed Architetti Napoletani.
Greco was highly esteemed in his lifetime. De Domenici titles a chapter “Notizie de Gennaro Greco … ,” with the painter’s name followed, in much smaller type, by a number of apparently lesser artists, including Leonardo Coccorante, whose star burns brightly today.
When a child, Greco’s face was horribly disfigured in a fire; for the rest of his life he was called Il Mascacotta – literally “he of the cooked face.” His biographer, however, notes several compensations. The apparently prosperous Greco had three young, beautiful wives, and a multitude of sons, including one, Vincenza, who became a painter.
A student of Andrea Pozzo’s 1693 treatise on architectural perspective – Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum – Greco’s earliest work involved painting ornament, temporary stages for religious celebrations, as well as perspectival frameworks for other artists’ figural projects.
Greco’s mature work, of which the example here is characteristic, focuses on very carefully rendered views of imaginary ruins – vedute ideate – often set by a bay with highly detailed ships and other structures beyond.
With the present picture, note the skillful manner in which the ruins are made lighter and lower contrast, as they recede into the distance enhancing the picture’s depth.
Sebastian Deya
Category
Late 17th Century New York - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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