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Medium: Gesso
I wanna chilling on the beach
Located in Zofingen, AG
This work is a celebration of the beauty and peculiarity of every woman, regardless of age and figure.
The brightly painted woman's body brings a joyful mood to the painting.
Category
2010s Feminist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Canvas, Gesso, Linen, Varnish, Acrylic
Sunlit Prayers-Original Triptych-British Awarded Artist-Gold Leaf-Expressionist
Located in London, GB
The 'Sunlit' series is an exploration of the colour yellow and its positive healing effect on individuals impacted by grief.
The pictorial language in this series pays homage to Japa...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
Constant Gardener-Original Large Oil-British Awarded Artist-Gold Leaf-Expression
Located in London, GB
[Constant Gardener] and [Memory Landscape Series] are projects Shizico Yi began in 2015. She explores the forms, layers, and materials to express the relationship between space, time...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
ABSTRACT Artwork by Contemporary Artist Italian Giorgio Petracci 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
If painting still respects a logic that legitimizes its practice and existence in our hyper-saturated civilization of the image, it is its ability to break the representation, to ope...
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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Acrylic, Gesso, Wood
ABSTRACT Artwork Landscape by Contemporary Artist Italian Giorgio Petracci 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
If painting still respects a logic that legitimizes its practice and existence in our hyper-saturated civilization of the image, it is its ability to break the representation, to ope...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
Midnight Jasmine-Original Oil with Gold Leaf-British Awarded Artist-Expression
Located in London, GB
This painting is a part of the Summer Bloom Series. Night Bloom Jasmine, commonly known as Lady of the Night, has the sweetest scent and attracts moths and bats in the wild,
though i...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
ABSTRACT Artwork Landscape by Contemporary Artist Italian Giorgio Petracci 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
If painting still respects a logic that legitimizes its practice and existence in our hyper-saturated civilization of the image, it is its ability to break the representation, to ope...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
ABSTRACT Artwork Landscapes by Contemporary Artist Italian Giorgio Petracci 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
If painting still respects a logic that legitimizes its practice and existence in our hyper-saturated civilization of the image, it is its ability to break the representation, to ope...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
Landscape Memories VI-Original-abstract-expression-gold-British Awarded Artist
Located in London, GB
With strokes of Gold, Oil, Gesso and Acrylic, Shizico orchestrates a symphony of artistic abstract expression in this series of works; Shizico's [Sunlit Series] is meticulously devel...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
Original-Magic Bell in the Day -UK Awarded Artist-Botanical Abstract Expression
Located in London, GB
In her latest series, "The Weaver," Shizico explores forms, layers, and time onto canvases. Applying the format of diptychs and triptychs, she creates lyrical narratives, capturing t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
'Untitled' Abstract Geometric Wall Piece Wood/Paint/Textile Black, White, Grays
Located in Wellesley, MA
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS OF THIS WORK WILL BE SENT UPON REQUEST.
NOTE COLOR OF WOOD IS NOT QUITE AS YELLOW AS IIT APPEARS IN PHOTO AND IS IN KEEPING WITH OTHERS IN THIS SERIES:
Jean Fein...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Wood Panel, Muslin
Large Painting of Classic New York City in Rain with Figures by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Large Original Painting of a Classic 1990's Busy New York City Scene in the Rain, with Yellow Taxis, Cars and Figures, by British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. This is a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
X-Large#1 Limited-Gladiolus Glorious-Hand Painted finishing-Award British Artist
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare X-large Limited Edition, 80% of the Edition is hand painted and highlighted with original brushstrokes by artist Shizico Yi herself; a very rare and collectable L...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Original-Winter Bloom-UK Awarded Artist-Abstract Expression-ExhibitionCollection
Located in London, GB
"Some paintings take years," Shizico Yi told the curator, revealing that this particular artwork falls into that category. It's a piece she returned to after years of living with it,...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Acrylic
Canal with Gondolas - Venice, Italy Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful Pointillist depiction of an iconic Venice canal with gondolas by an unknown artist (Italian, 20th Century). Signed indistinctly lower right. Description on verso with indis...
Category
Early 2000s Pointillist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Fabric, Gesso, Oil, Foam Board
Fifth Avenue Manhattan New York City Panoramic Painting by Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Fifth Avenue Manhattan New York City Panoramic Painting by Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. This is a major work from her New York Series.
Art measures 48 x 24 inches
Frame m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Wood, Paint, Acrylic, Board, Gesso, Varnish, Panel, Wood Panel
Little Wren 4, Over The Moon, Bird, Nature, Animals, Gold
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
New Series - Over The Moon with Little British Birds. We are so blessed with such a variety of beautiful garden bird species within the UK. I feel inspired and 'Over The Moon' with j...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
Original Set Primary Blue series-Summer Cat-White Butterfly-BritishAward Artist
Located in London, GB
This special Summer Set offer includes two original oil and silver leaf on canvas
-White Butterfly
-Summer Blue Cat
White Butterfly is one of Shizico Yi's latest projects, inspired ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Silver
Snoopies in the Surf panorama long scroll painting on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a 36 inch by 36 foot unique Snoopies in the Surf painting on paper created as a site specific work for the2023 exhibition at the NYPL Tompkins square branch.
In 1999 I made ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Cotton Canvas, Archival Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Spring Duets-Original Series of 8-British Awarded Artist-Abstract landscape-Oil
Located in London, GB
[Spring Duet] is a project that explores the format of a diptych through a series of set paintings. Shizu painted all paintings en plein air in situ, capturing the landscape outside ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Sunlit Purple Rain-Original-Gold Leaf with Oil-British Awarded Artist-landscape
Located in London, GB
Through her art, Shizico weaves Tartan motifs beneath layers of vibrant paint, seamlessly blending her signature Japanese woodblock print visual language.
[The Weaver] is a series w...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Copper, Gold Leaf
Snoopies in the Abyss large painting
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is the large, unique Snoopies in the Abyss painting on canvas from a solo show I had in Chelsea NYC at the now defunct Clementine gallery.
The large naturalistic forms on each s...
Category
Early 2000s Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Cotton Canvas, Archival Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Manhattan Henge at Sunset on busy New York City Street by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Manhattan Henge at Sunset on busy New York City Street by British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. This is a major work to continue her epic New York Series which now spans ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Little Wren 3, Over, Over The Moon, Birds, Animal art, Nature, Gold leaf
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
New Series - Over The Moon with Little British Birds.
New Series - Over The Moon with Little British Birds. We are so blessed with such a variety of beautiful garden bird species wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
Little Blue Tit 4, Over The Moon, Birds, Animal art, Nature, Gold leaf, Metallic
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
New Series - Over The Moon with Little British Birds.
We are so blessed with such a variety of beautiful garden bird species within the UK. I feel inspired and 'Over The Moon' with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
Little Kingfisher, Over The Moon, Birds, Animal art, Nature, Gold leaf, Metallic
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
New Series - Over The Moon with Little British Birds.
We are so blessed with such a variety of beautiful garden bird species within the UK. I feel inspired and 'Over The Moon' with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
Robin Love 4, Over The Moon, Birds, Animal art, Nature, Gold leaf, Metallic art
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
New Series - Over The Moon with Little British Birds.
We are so blessed with such a variety of beautiful garden bird species within the UK. I feel inspired and 'Over The Moon' with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
Breakfast with Cat Series-Original Set-British Award Artist-oil, ink on papers
Located in London, GB
Shizico Yi is known for her expressive and distinctive artistic style, particularly evident in her mesmerizing ink drawings.
These two drawings paired together, serve as a delightfu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Ink, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Gesso, Oil, Acrylic
Impasto Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting with Pink Red Black & Golden Yellow
Located in Preston, GB
Impasto Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting with Pink Red Black & Golden Yellow by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield
Art measures 12 x 8 inches
Frame measures 17 x 13 i...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Paint, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board
Blue Valentine-Breakfast with Cat Series-Original-BritishAward Artist expression
Located in London, GB
This painting encapsulates the enchanting moments experienced during a series of breakfasts at Shizico Yi's Scotland home. Created plein air and in situ, scenes unfold over consecuti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Sumi Ink, Acrylic, Oil, Gesso, Ink, Archival Paper
Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Oil on Wood
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Figurative Oil Painting on Wood
Painted in the manner of late Romanticism, this charming miniature pastoral landscape by Edmund Fri...
Category
1870s Romantic Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Spring Duet III-Original Diptych-British Awarded Artist-Abstract-Expression-Oil
Located in London, GB
[Spring Duet] is a project that explores the format of a diptych through a series of set paintings. Shizu painted all paintings en plein air in situ, capturing the landscape outside ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Gesso
True Romance
Located in NIAGARA PARK, NSW
The feelings associated with a true romance, love, devotion, trust, optimism, and so on, are so precious and sort after. I believe I have a true romance a...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic Polymer, Varnish, Acrylic
Abstract Landscape Seascape Art with Pink Blue & White Sky by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Abstract Landscape Seascape Art with Pink Blue & White Sky by British Painter, Angela Wakefield
Art measures 18 x 14 inches
Frame measures 24 x 20 inche...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Paint, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board
Blood Warm Light ...Morning, Original painting, Abstract, Landscape
By Jo Jenkins
Located in Deddington, GB
Blood Red Light… Morning. Oil and gesso on board. Painting Size : H 28 cm x W 31 cm Size when framed: H 38cm x W 41cm. Framed with white wooden floating frame.
Additional Informati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic
Controlling Chaos 30 X 30
By José Castro
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Controlling Chaos. 2023
30 X 30
Acrylic, gesso, plaster of Paris and ink on cradled birchwood.
Jose Castro was born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1947. In 1961, when he was 14, he was sent to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Plaster, Ink, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Traditional English Countryside Original Oil Painting British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
A traditional original oil painting of the beautiful English countryside, capturing the range of trees, fields and buildings to be f...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cotton, Cotton Canvas, Gesso
Bluebirds I, grey and white composition, abstracted with text "Drug of a Nation"
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Birds on repurposed galvanized steel.
Predominately monochromatic repeated, patterned, abstracted bird images
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Metal
Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting with Pink & Blue Sky by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting with Pink & Blue Sky by Leading British Painter, Angela Wakefield
Art measures 18 x 12 inches
Frame measures 22 x 16 inches
This painting featu...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Paint, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board
Having a cigarette amongst Green and Blue, hand painted Edition #6 large Canvas
Located in London, GB
Hand painted finishing with most of the painting highlights! this very special Limited Edition ( #6 of 20 ) is made to the highest Museum archival quality , Giclée print on Canvas Ed...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars, Oil
Sunset at Loch in the Mountains of the Scottish Highlands by Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Sunset at Loch in the Mountains of the Scottish Highlands by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. A colourful and dramatic original on canvas, framed in the highest quality...
Category
2010s Realist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
ABSTRACT Landscape Artwork Acrylic and gold color Untitled by Pau Escat 2023
By Pau Escat
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Pau Escat is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Barcelona. His work investigates color and light in contact with materials, specifically the visual effect that this generates. His interest in observing these processes comes from two fields that have always been in his life: nature and jewelry. At first, one would say that they belong to opposing fields -the natural and the intervened, the wild and the domesticated, the living and the stony- but for the artist, they constitute the basis of the same way of looking and creating.
Nature, especially landscapes and atmospheres, allows him to express both the physical space, where effects such as color and light occur, and the intimate space, where color and light are associated with emotions. In this sense, the artist is interested in the pictorial tradition that, from a particular appreciation of landscape and nature, is a precursor of abstraction. In particular, his work focuses on the Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century, from whom he takes the bipartite composition of the painting and the characteristic vibration of the stormy skies. The impressionists have also been essential in his way of looking at nature, for their pictorial work of atmospheres that already brings them close to abstraction. In the artworks of the artist, a certain state of stillness, contemplation, and silence in front of natural phenomena is essential. His proposal is precisely interested in these moments dedicated to seeing for the pleasure of seeing, without haste or objective to fulfill. Thus, her paintings retain this atmospheric weightlessness, the result of contemplation, which gives a livid character to the set of elements.
Jewelry, on the other hand, represents for him the creative moment par excellence. After contemplation comes the action, which already reflects the artist's experience on the canvas. Pau Escat belongs to a family that has been dedicated to jewelry for more than a century. He was trained and worked in this profession, designing pieces that introduced him to the craftsmanship of materials, textures, and light. In addition, the art of creating jewelry provided him with a knowledge of symbolism that he recognizes as central to his artistic conception. His work gathers the experience of nature and works it to give it form and channel emotion, just as in jewelry the material becomes something more thanks to the jeweler. Like the symbol, the artwork transmits and communicates an idea, but admits a game between the subjective and the universal meanings. For the artist, this work with visual concepts is the basis of artistic creation. Always, of course, looking for the mystery rather than the explicit, through the abstract language that partially veils the symbol. For this reason, his works do not have a specific title either, building a diaphanous space for the viewer to interpret from his reception.
Both nature and jewelry also show how objects live, and how they change over time. Just as organic materials transform themselves, so do inorganic ones. The artist has always been fascinated by the effect that time has on canvases, painting surfaces, and colors. The golds that predominate in his work acquire different aspects according to the time of day and modify their tonalities depending on the light that bathes them. In the same way, the works and their materials, as happens with the jewels, vary, without any possible foresight, over time: spatial and temporal randomness, as well as meticulous artistic work.
EXHIBITIONS
2017
Naturcanisme, Oblyon Art Space. Barcelona, Spain
2019
Bachs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
H10 Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Gallery 104, New York, USA
2020
Círculo Ecuestre, Barcelona, Spain
Exposición colectiva Galería Jorge Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain.
RA, Bachs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Oxímoron Arthub Mahón, Menorca, Spain
Gallery 104, New York, USA
2021
Metamorfosis, Arte Contemporáneo, Formentera, Spain.
Hotel Majestic, Barcelona, Spain
"Oxímoron" Arthub Mahón Menorca, Spain
Tilisitt Gallery, Oporto, Portugal
2022
Tilisitt Gallery, Oporto, Portugal
Something About Us, Casa Estudio Granados...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Original-Magnolias-Memory Landscape-UK Awarded Artist-oil on canvas board-Spring
Located in London, GB
Spring-Memory Landscape features Magnolias, among the first flowers to grace the Spring Equinox after the long, cold winter, symbolising regeneration and vitality. These early Magnol...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Scottish Highlands with Children Playing in the Mountains by Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
The Scottish Highlands - A colourful and dramatic original acrylic on canvas depicting children walking in the Mountains of Scotland. Entitled "The Road to Glencoe" by British Contem...
Category
2010s Realist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Preparatory anatomical study for the figure of a man with hands on his face.
Located in Firenze, IT
Preparatory anatomical study for the figure of a man with hands on his face.
Drawing of a medium-sized male nude.
From the 19th century
Drawing on slightly greyish colored paper.
In ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Nodal Transference
Located in NIAGARA PARK, NSW
This artwork is an emotional piece that explores the idea of transferring information from one node to the other, from one side to the other. Here the concept of 'action painting' ha...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic Polymer, Varnish
"Abstract Garden" No1, Absrtact Mixed Media Painting, 2017
Located in London, GB
Hsu Tung-Lung (b.1947) is a highly accomplished contemporary artist, who specializes in paintings. His latest collection "Memory Landscape" features an original abstract oil painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic
Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting with Pink & Blue Sky by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting with Pink & Blue Sky by Leading British Painter, Angela Wakefield
Art measures 12 x 10 inches
Frame measures ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Paint, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board
Rain Dots 2, contemporary urban landscape
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Drops of rain reflect bright lights and dot the stormy
sky of a rainy day. The windshield highlights the contrast of an intimate
experience within to the effect of the elements outsi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Originals Oil-Magic Bell in Golden Sunlit-Gold Leaf-UK Awarded Artist-Abstract
Located in London, GB
Magic Bells is a part of her "Memory Landscape" Series. Shizico explores forms, layers, and time onto canvases.
In this outstanding painting, Shizico applied layers of materials ( G...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sungazing
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting with warm earthy yellow colours, and black and white ink accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a poem in colour...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
Sand Rivers Run Fast
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting with warm earthy yellow colours, and black and white ink accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a poem in colour...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
Silk
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting mostly monochrome black and white with subtle earthy brown accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a silent poem....
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
"My Foolish Heart" Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Sofie Swann features a warm palette, layering circular shapes in red and orange tones over top of one another to create an abstract composition with depth. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic
Painted Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding in the Biccherna Style Siena Tuscany
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Icilio Federico Joni.
Italian ( b.1866 - d.1946 ).
Painted Gesso, Gilt and Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding in the Sienese Biccherna Style
Book Cover size 11 inches x 8.1 inches ( 28cm x 20.5cm ).
Frame size 16 inches x 13 inches ( 40.5cm x 33cm ).
Available for sale; this painted gesso and gilt “tavolette” wooden book cover in the Biccherna style is by Icilio Federico Joni.
The book cover is mounted and supplied in a contemporary black Tulip Wood frame (which is shown in these photographs) which is glazed with non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue® UV70 glass. The wooden book cover is curved and float mounted giving a wonderful 3D depth to its presentation.
The gesso and painted surfaces have benefitted from professional restoration which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval.
This antique book cover is now in very good condition, commensurate with its age.
The frame presentation is new and in excellent condition. Combined, it wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The story of these panels and of their artist is fascinating, and begins in 13th century Siena:
The Biccherna was the person who held the position of Magistrate of Chancellery of Finance from the 13th to the 14th century for the republic and the city of Siena, in the Tuscany region of Italy. The records of that office were very important because Siena was one of the earliest and most significant banking centres in Italy, and indeed in Europe. It became the fashion to keep banking and taxation records of the region in large books with painted leather covers. These were originally made from wood and leather. In the competition to make these ever more prestigious the bindings and panels on the front and rear of the books were painted by the major artists of the day, such as Giovanni di Paolo. Many of these mainly secular covers are displayed in the Archives of the State of Siena located in the Palazzo Piccolmini.
The Gothic Revival of the 19th century occurred partly as a reaction against the progress of industrialisation in Europe generally. It was however greatly affected by the unification of Italy in the second half of the 19th century. This led to the closure and downsizing of many religious institutions, which resulted in the dispersal of thousands of works of art dating from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Many aristocratic and bourgeois families struggled to pay debts or simply to make ends meet and so they sold off their private collections and family heirlooms. There was then an influx of goods into the antiques market which provided a great deal of work for Italy’s restorers and craftsmen, since many of these pieces were in need of cleaning, repair and, in keeping with the interventionist tastes of the times, radical restoration, before they could be sold on, often to foreign buyers. These early Italian works became so fashionable that demand soon outstripped supply. This in turn gave rise to a new type of artist-craftsman capable of turning out from scratch increasingly convincing reproductions, imitations and out-and-out fakes.
Siena naturally became the epicentre of this thriving cottage industry because of the extraordinary continuity there in traditional craft skills. This technical expertise had been handed down from generation to generation, and it was perhaps inevitable that a number of artists with real talent, the flair of commerce and a genuine love and understanding of antique Sienese art should adapt their skills to these new market conditions. Among these artists were Igino Gottardi, Alceo Dossena, Fulvio Corsini, Umberto Giunti...
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Late 19th Century Gothic Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
Blush
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting with subtle pastel palette of light pinks, peach and grey and earthy brown colours, complex textures and black and white ink accents. The gestural...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
End Of Summer Winds Make People Restless
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting with warm earthy yellow colours, and black and white ink accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a poem in colour...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
Meet Me Halfway
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small abstract painting mostly black and white with subtle earthy orange accents. The gestural abstraction that captures a sensation, an emotion, a poem in colour. Organ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Gesso
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
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