Jacob Gildor

Target (Esravos/Selves)

2006

JACOB GILDOR b. 1948 (German / Israeli) Title: Taurus II, 2003 Technique: Original Hand Signed Tempera and Collage and Ink on cardboard Size: 25.3 x 35.2 cm / 9.9 x 13.8 in Additional Information: It is hand signed in black pen "Gildor" at the lower left of the paper. It was realised in 2003. This work is recorded in the artist archive with reference no. 2003-12 Exhibited: 1. Forward and Backward, paintings 1966-2003, Sara Kishon Gallery, Tel Aviv, January 2003. No. 6, illustrated pages 10-11. 2. Art Budapst, Antik Enterior, 2006 3. Belvedere Gallery, Budapest , Winter Collection, 2007 Literaute: Jacob Gildor, Segments of Creation, Vol. I, 2009, Israeli Art Museum...

JACOB GILDOR b. 1948 (German / Israeli) Title: Pocket Nudes, 2007 Technique: Original Hand Signed Collage with Watercolor on cardboard Size: 25.5 x 30 cm / 10 x 11.8 in Additional Information: This collage by the Israeli artist Jacob Gildor is hand signed in bleu pen "Gildor" at the lower left of the paper. It was realised in 2007. This work is recorded in the artist archive with reference no. 2007-7 Literaute: Jacob Gildor, Segments of Creation: Second Generation, Vol. III, 2009, Israeli Art Museum...

JACOB GILDOR b. 1948 (German / Israeli) Title: Boy with Panther, 2005 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Inscribed Gouache on cardboard Size: 35 x 27.8 cm / 13.7 x 10.9 in...

JEAN [HANS] ARP 1886 –1966 Strasbourg, France 1886–1966 Basel, Switzerland (German/French) Title: French Form Forme Francaise, 1959 Technique: Hand Signed Pencil Drawing on Wove P...

Signed lower left, 'Patricia Torres' (Mexican, born 1963) and dated 1987. Previously with: Robert Dana Gallery from accompanying label and titled 'Duo...

Surrealist proto-Afropunk drawing by African-American artist, Roland Ayers (1932-2014). Hesitation Blues, 1968. Ink on paper, sheet measures 13 x 23 inches; 14 x 18 inches in archival pH-neutral matting. Signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration. Provenance: Sheila Ayers-Whitelaw Exhibition History: Roland Ayers: Calligraphy of Dreams, Woodmere Art Museum, 07/10/2021 - 10/24/2021 Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively. In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery. During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic. A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe. Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content. Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...

Demons is an original drawing in china Ink by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced com...

Figure of Woman is an original China Ink and watercolour realized by Mayo in 1950s. Good condition on a white paper. Signature on the lower right corner. Antoine MAYO (1905-1990) ...