Andrew King ROI

Andrew King ROI (b.1956) - 1983 Watercolour, Winter Village Scene

1983

A fine watercolour painting of the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne, a minor basilica located in Boulogne-sur-Mer in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France. The basilica was built between 1827 and 1875 on the site of the medieval cathedral...

A picturesque view of the Swiss municipality of Pully on Lake Geneva. Inscribed on the verso, 'View of Pully, Lake of Geneva. Foreground ideal. 1839. [indi...

A view of figures fishing in a river in the foreground with a village in the background. Cattle rest on the opposite riverbank. Presented in a cream mount. There is a later inscripti...

A view of a river flowing past a historic village, possibly in Italy. A woman carries a vessel of water in the foreground. Presented in a yellow marble-effect wash line mount. Unsign...

A view across an orchard near Lausanne on Lake Geneva. Inscribed on the verso, 'Taken from my window at the Campagne [indistinct] near Lausanne. 1850'. Inscribed with the same detail...

A delightful depiction of a mountainous landscape with a small village placed by the edge of a lake. Painted in fine detail, this atmospheric scene captures the essence of a rural mo...

"Flat Lands" is an original mixed media on paper by Tom Perkinson. His use of saturated violets, vivid yellows, and resplendent oranges pushes color to almost-otherworldly realms. Th...

"Plains Indian Camp" is an original mixed media on paper by Tom Perkinson. His use of saturated violets, vivid yellows, and resplendent oranges pushes colo...

[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Two Watercolour Scenes. Possibly Canton ca.1820]. Very impressive large scale watercolours of Chinese scenes, presumably executed for the Western market by an an...

The idyllic atmosphere of this local dock scene falls within a couple of styles one being regionalism, an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and frequently associated with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. The other style is romanticism wherein the scene depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. “Untitled (Dock Scene)” is typical of a small town dock scene from Michigan where Culver lived or from places as far away as Maine, but what makes it important is its easy familiarity: water, gulls or terns, slanting wood shanties, scruffy dirt patches and course grasses. It is not idealized, but does set the tone of fresh air, the scream of birds and the sun on water. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles Culver...

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Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended th...