Art by Medium: Gold

Christ Pantocrator after a Russian icon of the 15th Century. Tempera and gold leaf on gesso over a wooden board. Measurements in centimeters: 38 x 29.5 x 3 cm. / In inches: 14.96 x 11.8 x 1.18 " This is how the artist sums up the technique used by him to create the icon: “The aim of these steps is to create a durable painting. The icon is eternal. The first step is to choose a support, traditionally made of wood, from the center of the trunk to avoid warping it. For this purpose, two hardwood bolts were often used on the back to give the picture panel additional stability. Often a frame is milled out. Then the image carrier is sanded smooth and now 12 or 14 thin layers of gesso are applied and sanded smooth as well. Then the preliminary drawing is applied and the drawing board is prepared with a special preparation called bolus. This bolus can be polished to a high gloss. Afterwards, the gold leaf is "shot" with special brushes. It dries up within a few hours and can now be polished with agate. Gold leaf is real 24-carat gold. Now does the actual process of painting begins. Egg tempera is made fresh from egg yolk, water, and a little vinegar. This is used to prepare the color pigments. Tempera painting is done in numerous layers from dark to light. When the icon is finished, it is left to dry for a few months and varnished with a special varnish called Olifa made from boiled linseed oil and other ingredients”. ABOUT THE ARTIST Oliver Samsinger (Vienna, 1968) began to take an interest in icons in 1990. He undertakes several trips to Bulgaria, Greece, and Cyprus to see in situ the original works treasured in these three countries. This experience will be crucial in his life since the studies carried out in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, and his stay on Mount Athos...

Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in black ink, 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (340 x 222 mm). Toning, handling creases and ...

Oil and gold and silver leaf on canvas For centuries, artisans and artists have turned to gold leaf as a way to make their creations shimmer and shine. Also many contemporary artist...

Charlotte Elizabeth has been working with paint professionally for over fifteen years. Elizabeth’s training in theatre design preceded a busy career as a Theatrical Scenic Artist in ...

Rhonda Libbey's "Aries" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white Ram with a orange floral wreath and a golden halo standing among yello...

Old oil on canvas glued on cardboard French school of the late 18th century, bearer fagot in a wooded landscape. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes studied painting at the Royal Academy of...

Olivia Fraser Metamorphosis, 2021-2022 Pigment, Arabic gum & gold leaf on handmade paper 35.25 x 150.25 inches 89.53 x 381.63 cm. OF038 Olivia Fraser (b...

Charlotte Elizabeth has been working with paint professionally for over fifteen years. Elizabeth’s training in theatre design preceded a busy career as a Theatrical Scenic Artist in ...

In this new series Mercado utilizes canvas in big format as a medium to intervene Jack Delano's photographs of Puerto Rican agriculture workers he documented for the FSA in the 1940...

Pedro Friedeberg is an artist and designer from Mexico of Italian origin, known for his surreal work full of lines, colors, and ancient religious symbols. His best-known piece is the “ManoChair”: a sculpture/chair designed to sit on the palm, using the fingers as backrests and armrests. Friedeberg began to study architecture but did not finish his studies. He began to produce designs that went against the conventional forms of the 1950s, some as incredible as houses with artichoke roofs. His work caught the attention of Mathías Goeritz who encouraged him to continue his career as an artist. Friedeberg became part of a group of Mexican surrealist...

Evoking a sense of place, a heightened sense of atmosphere and cultural influences, my paintings are an allusion to landscape, a suggestion of place based on color and sensory detail...

Sezione Aurea 2024-027 is a unique monumental sculpture by contemporary artist Mattia Bosco. This sculpture is made of Palissandro marble and gold leaf, dimensions are 68 × 44 × 32 ...

A woman in jewels and a gossamer sari churns butter for ghee. Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on ...

Eli, 2020 Oil on Panel with Carved and Gilded Frame, 11.5 x 13.5 inches An embodiment of Renaissance portraiture, Varpucanskis’s “Eli” is distinguished by its gentle charm and mat...

Oil On Canvas, Hunting Dog by Alexander Clarys Belgian School German Shorthair Hunting Dog Exceptional paintings seen the large format, sold without the frame. Alexandre Clarys, bor...

Artist: Kuno Vollet Title: Balance 2 Materials: Bronze, black granite base Size: 42 x 22 cm _______________________________________________________________________ This elegant...

Sold directly on behalf of the artist Gold Monet by Lélia Pissarro (B. 1963) Tempera and gold on paper 21 x 14.7 cm (8 ¹/₄ x 5 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro Execute...

Artist: Kuno Vollet Title: 4 Leaf Stone Gingko Materials: Cast brass, gold leaf, Stone base This small elegant original brass cast and gold leaf sculpture by German artist Kuno Vol...

Fernanda Naman Abstract Landscape #11, 2017 40 x 40 inches 100 x 100 cm Edition of 6 C-Print Gold Leaf

Pedro Friedeberg is an artist and designer from Mexico of Italian origin, known for his surreal work full of lines, colors, and ancient religious symbols. His best-known piece is the...

Bellflower is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments, gold and silver leaf on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions ar...

Zen Caos After I had built up a decent body of work and started showing it publicly, I wanted to grow—I wanted to reach a new audience. I began sending emails to galleries and art s...

Artist: Kuno Vollet Title: Grey Bronze Gingko with 8 leaves sculpture four or three of them in gold leaf - arrangement of gold leaves can be chosen by client. Base can be chosen be...

Electric Coffin is a Seattle-based artist collaboration between Duffy De Armas and Stefan Hofmann. Electric Coffin are based in Seattle, Washington but exhibit nationally and interna...

Artist: Kuno Vollet Title: 3 Golden Gingko Leaves Materials: Cast brass, gold leaf, white marble base Size: 25 x 9 x 9 cm This small elegant original bronze cast sculpture by German...

An acrylic and gold leaf on canvas piece with bright use of color and texture. We are focused on the simplicity of beauty in the moment as Shaoul creates a translucent but very color...

Oil and gold leaf on canvas For centuries, artisans and artists have turned to gold leaf as a way to make their creations shimmer and shine. Also many contemporary artists continue ...

Oil Painting portrait of Madame Ferrier by Gabriel Ferrier French school 19Th Gabriel-Joseph-Marie-Augustin Ferrier ( 1847 in Nîmes – 1914 in Paris) was a French portrait painter an...

FREYA BRAMBLE-CARTER V4 – Crown the Clown Collection, 2021 Thrown and assembled in Stoneware Clay, with a combination of Glazes, Underglazes, Enamels and...

Abstract minimalist artist Jason DeMeo presents a collection of artworks designed to engage viewers in a meditative experience, drawing them closer to the ...

Margherita Leoni's small and precious painting presents all the fullness of thriving nature offering its fruits. As in sacred art, gold has always evoked the divine, the choice of th...

Charlotte Elizabeth has been working with paint professionally for over fifteen years. Elizabeth’s training in theatre design preceded a busy career as a Theatrical Scenic Artist in ...

One flame candle holder putto made of gilded wood. Those kind of objects were present in churches or noble villas, specially during the Baroque times. The base is not coeval.

A glorious painting from Sax Berlin's studio. Richly clothed & adorned, the Muse sits in peaceful meditation, her guitar held to her breast. Muse of music, bringing joy & peace to t...

FAILE Red Dog, 2018 Offset Print with gold foil on Lenox 100 paper. Faile studio stamp on the back Annotated and hand signed in pencil on the lower front with studio stamp on the bac...

Monet Blue by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963) Tempera and gold on paper 21 x 14.7 cm (8 ¹/₄ x 5 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro Executed in 2023 This work is accompanied by ...

Sezione Aurea 2024-018 is a unique wall sculpture by contemporary artist Mattia Bosco. This sculpture is made of black Palissandro marble and gold leaf, dimensions are 74 × 40 × 7 cm...

In this project, Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev draws a line between sensuality and explicit sexuality in depicting a woman's body. Modern photography offers two main approaches to the su...

Gold From the series, Elements, this sculpture references the proliferation of gold mines in third world countries. ARTIST'S STATEMENT Michael Davis My sculptures and installations...

Nocturn IV is a unique painting by contemporary artist Lumi Mizutani. The painting is made with Japanese pigments and gold leaves on Japanese paper mounted on panel. This artwork is ...

In this new series Mercado utilizes canvas in big format as a medium to intervene Jack Delano's photographs of Puerto Rican agriculture workers he documented for the FSA in the 1940...

During the pandemic, the artist stayed for 4 months in Oaxaca on a beach called San Aguistinillo, where he developed the Sana Distancia (safe distance) c...

from IPEDEC (School of Decorative Painting in Paris) and specialized in trompe-l'œil painting. Over the years, he has developed his own style and brought to life an innovative and ri...

Niki de Saint Phalle Brooch (Oiseau), ca. 2005 Zamak, gold tone finished, nickel free (Incised Signature) Incised signature on the back of the jewelry (Niki De Saint Phalle) and the clasp (Niki). 2 3/10 × 1 3/5 inches Authorized by the Estate of Niki de Saint Phalle! This colorful, whimsical piece - "Oiseau" (Bird) can be worn both as a brooch and as a necklace. Bears the Niki de Saint Phalle's incised signature. Collectible work. Makes a terrific gift. Biography of Niki de Saint Phalle Childhood Niki de Saint Phalle was born in France in 1930 to an aristocratic Catholic family. She had an American mother, a French banker father, four siblings, and grew up bilingual in French and English. Her father lost his wealth during the Great Depression and the family moved to the US in 1933, where Saint Phalle attended Brearley School, a girls' school in New York City. Saint Phalle reported later in her life, in an autobiography titled Mon Secret (1994), that her father had sexually abused her from age 11. From an early age, Saint Phalle pushed boundaries in her artistic and personal life. Though she found Brearley School to be a formative experience, later claiming that it was there she became a feminist, she was expelled for painting the fig leaves covering the genitals of statues on the school's campus red. She then attended Oldfields School in Maryland, graduating in 1947. As a young woman, Saint Phalle also worked as a model, appearing on the front covers of Life Magazine and Vogue. When she was 18, Saint Phalle eloped with Henry Matthews, an author and childhood friend. While Matthews studied music at Harvard University, Saint Phalle began to explore painting, and gave birth to her daughter Laura in 1951, when she was 20 years old. Early Training and work In 1952, the Matthews and Saint Phalle moved to Paris, where he continued to study music and Saint Phalle studied theater. The couple traveled extensively in Europe, gaining exposure to art by the Old Masters. The following year, Saint Phalle was diagnosed with a "nervous breakdown" and hospitalized in a psychiatric facility. She was encouraged to paint as a form of therapy, and consequently gave up her theater studies in favor of becoming an artist. The couple moved to Mallorca off the coast of Spain, where their son Philip was born in 1955. During this time, Saint Phalle developed her imaginative, self-taught style of painting, experimenting with a variety of forms and materials. She also discovered the architecture of Antonio Gaudi, which had a strong influence on her work. Gaudi's Park Guell in Barcelona was instrumental in Saint Phalle's early conceptualization of the elaborate sculpture garden she would fulfill much later in her career. Mature Period At the end of the 1950s, Saint Phalle and her husband moved back to Paris. In 1960, however, the couple separated and Saint Phalle moved to a new apartment, established a studio, and met artist Jean Tinguely, with whom she would collaborate artistically. Within a year, they had moved in together and begun a romantic relationship. Saint Phalle became part of the Nouveau Réalisme movement along with Tinguely, Yves Klein, Arman and others. She was the only woman in the group. Her first solo exhibition in 1961 punctuated a dynamic period of Saint Phalle's early career, and she met a number of influential artists living in Paris at the time, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, whose use of found objects was to have a strong influence on Saint Phalle's work. She was also friendly with Marcel Duchamp, who first introduced her and Tinguely to Salvador Dalí. The three artists traveled to Spain together to an event celebrating Dali's work, in which a life-sized bull sculpture was detonated with fireworks. In 1963, Tinguely and Saint Phalle moved to an old house just outside Paris, where she began to work on architectural projects as well as her renowned shooting...

Even though Helle Rask Crawford often refers to classic myths in her sculptures, sh is not a classical sculptor in the neoclassical sense. Rather, Helle Crawford could be defined as ...

Oil and gold leaf on canvas For centuries, artisans and artists have turned to gold leaf as a way to make their creations shimmer and shine. Also many contemporary artists continue ...

Guided by her passion for life and her spirit, French Canadian painter Zabel creates vibrant artworks filled with romance and immersive textures. With a belief that art is all about feeling, she creates magic and captures the moment by infusing her art with strong emotive qualities. Zabel communicates each scene with precision. Her work evokes the Impressionists, but depicts modern love and adventure. Couples stand at bar top tables sipping aperitifs. Bartenders and piano players help to break the ice among palm trees and cityscapes presented in vibrant, dripping hues. The energy of social butterflies drawn to one another is palpable as they float effortlessly across the canvas. This 40 inch high by 60 inch wide painting is wired and ready to hang. Zabel used gold leaf and acrylic paint to create this unique artwork. The sides of the artwork are painted and it does not require framing. The artist signs the painting on the back as well as the front lower right corner. Free local Los Angeles delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and global shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Using only spatulas, every artwork communicating her story is full of visceral energy. She plays with a strong, vast color palette and creates a unique ambiance in her artworks. Her inspiration never ends; from chic and glamorous lifestyles rendered in gold and silver to neon summer vibes, you can feel the vibrancy of her life’s travels and colorful experiences. For several years, the artworks of Zabel have seduced Quebecois from across provinces, earning her several awards. Zabel’s paintings are now catching the keen eyes of collectors internationally. From New York to Japan, across the USA from California to Miami, and all over Europe, her love story is only beginning. REPRESENTATION Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA EXHIBITIONS 2020-23 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA Art Palm Springs, CA 2019 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA Coast Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Luzano & Barbutti, New Orleans, LA Galerie Le Luxart, Montreal, Canada Ryan Fine Art Gallery, Port Carling, Ontario, Canada Galerie Guylaine Fournier, Baie-St.-Paul, Canada Galerie Celeste, St. Sauveur, Quebec, Canada Zabel Gallery, Champlain, Quebec, Canada 2018 Texas Contemporary, Texas ZK Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art San Diego, San Diego, CA Love Art Gallery, Norwalk, CT Art Production, New York, NY Merlino’s Gallery Art Expertise, Firenze, Italy San Francisco Art Market, San Francisco, CA Art Expo New York, NY 2017 Art Basel Week, Miami, FL Art San Diego, San Diego, CA ZK Gallery, San Francisco, CA Amsterdam International Art Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands...

Nicolas Galtier N° 200-15, 2019 80 x 80 inches 200 x 200 cm Unique Mixed Media Nicolas Galtier is a French painter who has exhibited his work...

Even though Helle Rask Crawford often refers to classic myths in her sculptures, sh is not a classical sculptor in the neoclassical sense. Rather, Helle Crawford could be defined as ...

Series "Ocean Waves" is a powerful series of three-dimensional abstract paintings that captures the rhythmic essence of nature through sculptural textures and elemental contrasts. In...

Series "Ocean Waves" is a powerful series of three-dimensional abstract paintings that captures the rhythmic essence of nature through sculptural textures and elemental contrasts. In...

Series "Ocean Waves" is a powerful series of three-dimensional abstract paintings that captures the rhythmic essence of nature through sculptural textures and elemental contrasts. In...

Series "Ocean Waves" is a powerful series of three-dimensional abstract paintings that captures the rhythmic essence of nature through sculptural textures and elemental contrasts. In...

Series "Touch of Tranquility" is a sculptural painting series that delves into the silent strength of black and the tactile language of texture. Through three-dimensional abstract su...

Series "Touch of Tranquility" is a sculptural painting series that delves into the silent strength of black and the tactile language of texture. Through three-dimensional abstract su...

Series "Touch of Tranquility" is a sculptural painting series that delves into the silent strength of black and the tactile language of texture. Through three-dimensional abstract su...

Faithful Portrait Oil Painting and Gold Leaf on Canvas In Stock Candace Charlton Born in Durban, Natal, 1968 - South Africa Attended the Johannesburg School of Art, Ballet, Drama and Music from 1983 until 1986. Having received two scholarships she continued her studies at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown where she finished her Bachelor of Fine Art, majoring in Sculpture and Art History. During this period she took part in various exhibitions and competitions: In 1989 she exhibited in Port Elizabeth...

Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...

Ink & gold on paper

Ink & gold on paper