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'The Lowered Bough', Figural Petit-point, Needlepoint, Mother, Daughter, Harvest

Circa 1840

A substantial mid-nineteenth century figural embroidery showing the bard with a full beard playing a lyre, seated on a classical colonnade and gazin...

Chinese School, 20th century; After Ren Renfa (Qinglongzhen, 1255-1328). Signed center right in Chinese with artist chop mark for 'Yueshan Daoren' 月山道人, brush name for Ren Renfa. (Qinglongzhen [now Qingpu, Songjiang, Shanghai Municipality], b.1255; d. 1328). Chinese painter. Under the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) he became an official, rising to the level of Vice-President of the River Conservation Bureau. He was famous for his paintings of horses, which were much admired by both his Mongol and Chinese patrons. In horse painting he followed in the tradition of the Song-period (960–1279) artist Li Gonglin, which was characterized by use of the ‘iron-wire’ line and a minimum of shading. Ultimately, however, Ren’s style can be traced to the Tang (ad 618–907) painters Yan Liben and Han Gan. Ren’s earliest surviving painting is dated 1280, indicating that he was a mature artist by his mid-twenties. Although he worked as an official under the alien Mongol emperors, he was capable of paintings that incorporated clear political messages. The most famous is Fat and Lean Horses (Beijing, Pal. Mus.), in which, according to his inscription, the fat horse...

American School, unsigned and painted circa 1975. A vivid and upbeat oil abstract comprising discrete areas of golden-yellow, coral and aqua-turquoise...

Signed verso, "Cristina Sayers", a listed California artist, titled "Chicas at the Beach" and created in 2012. Whimsical oil and assemblage showing three anthropomorphic cats wearing bows and swimsuits set against a whimsical beach...

Signed lower right, 'L. Curtis' for Lynn Curtis (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. Exhibited: Lodi Art Center, 11th Annual Art Exhibition (from accompanying label). Framed dimensions: 38.25 H x 60.5 W x 1.75 D Inches. A very substantial, oil and mixed media Modernist work showing a profusion of spring wild-flowers bursting through panels of wind-billowed canvas. A dynamic expression of spring's power of growth overcoming all physical restraint. Lynn Curtis holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Dartmouth College and a Masters in painting and drawing from The University of Iowa. She received a postgraduate certificate in printmaking from London's Slade School...

A stunningly original mixed-media collage showing an Ark containing various life-forms and a dove resting in the waves. Fridman has used oil paint, papyrus and pre-columbian textiles...

Old constructs finally breaking down, 2020 Contemporary Textile Artwork Wool rowing, silk, Michigan wool, Japanese Cotton 24x24in Signed and dated

Materials: Drenthe heath, merino, silk, mohair, cotton pigments: walnut, cochineal, onion, madder Created with Claudy Jongstra’s signature Drenthe Heath Sheep wool and dyed in a sub...

Materials: Drenthe Heath and merino wool, mohair, silk, cotton and linen, naturally-dyed with organic pigments including madder, cochineal, logwood, St John’s wort and walnut. The panels are hung with oak bark tanned leather strips in steel frames. After three years of traveling and manifesting itself the time has come to say goodbye to Woven Skin in its original form as an art installation and nomadic forum consisting of 60 hanging panels to be placed together in changing constellations and harboring essential global dialogue. Jongstra’s urgent message demanding attention for topics concerning ecology, colour and community will be continued in a new work of art and concept that will be revealed at the end of 2021. Galerie Fontana...

Materials: Drenthe Heath and merino wool, mohair, silk, cotton and linen, naturally-dyed with organic pigments including madder, cochineal, logwood, St John’s wort and walnut. The panels are hung with oak bark tanned leather strips in steel frames. After three years of traveling and manifesting itself the time has come to say goodbye to Woven Skin in its original form as an art installation and nomadic forum consisting of 60 hanging panels to be placed together in changing constellations and harboring essential global dialogue. Jongstra’s urgent message demanding attention for topics concerning ecology, colour and community will be continued in a new work of art and concept that will be revealed at the end of 2021. Galerie Fontana...

Materials: Wool Merino, Drenth Heath, Raw Silks, Cotton Gauze Jongstra embraces the full potential of life on earth by benefitting from the wonderful material of sheep wool and by distilling her own colour palette using ancient dyers crops and almost lost handcraft skills. At the same time she is incessantly striving to enhance biodiversity, to safeguard cultural heritage and to transfer secret knowledge to younger generations. In 2022, the year that activist Claudy Jongstra launches two new essential initiatives as part of her ongoing mission - the nomadic Guernica de la Ecologia and the foundation of the Phi School - her most recent art pieces seem to want to express a new urgency. The electrifying pink of Fuchsia Hybrida...

Materials: Wool Merino, Drenth Heath, Raw Silks, Cotton Gauze Jongstra embraces the full potential of life on earth by benefitting from the wonderful material of sheep wool and by distilling her own colour palette using ancient dyers crops and almost lost handcraft skills. At the same time she is incessantly striving to enhance biodiversity, to safeguard cultural heritage and to transfer secret knowledge to younger generations. In 2022, the year that activist Claudy Jongstra launches two new essential initiatives as part of her ongoing mission - the nomadic Guernica de la Ecologia and the foundation of the Phi School - her most recent art pieces seem to want to express a new urgency. The electrifying pink of Fuchsia Hybrida...