David Rankin

Australian Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting

1990

David Rankin American (b. 1946) Untitled (Black on gray) (1990) Gouache and charcoal on paper signed lower left 19 x 15 inches Rankin is a New York-based, British-born Australian p...

Budd Hopkins, American (1931-2011) 'City Sun II', 1969 Oil painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated lower left. Verso: Artist, title, and year in pencil on stretcher. Dimensions: 36" H x 52" w. Frame: 37.25" h x 53.25" w. Budd Hopkins was one of the leading proponents of the "hard-edge" abstract minimalist school of painting in the 1950s and 1960s, Budd Hopkins (born 1931) created works that show the strong influence of Jackson Pollock and other leading painters of the Abstract Expressionism movement. Hopkins' paintings are now in numerous major collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Hirshhorn Collection in Washington, DC. Recently, he has also been recognized for his research into the matter of UFOs and one of his books, "The Intruders", printed by Random House, was on the New York Times best-seller list and was the basis for a television show on CBS. Born in 1931, he is a graduate of Linsly Military Institute (now Linsly School) in 1949 and Oberlin College in 1953. He first displayed artistic abilities when, as a child recovering from a long-term illness, he began to create sculptures of ships made out of modeling clay. But it wasn't until he arrive at Oberlin that he made a serious study of art. Later, Hopkins included abstracted figures in his sculptural pieces. While moving away from Abstract Expressionism, Hopkins retained in his work the use of intense colors and hard-edged forms. His works of the 1980s, including Temples and Guardians, featured these "sentinels" who were, according to Hopkins, "participating in a frozen ritual, fixed – absolutely – within a privileged space..." Though Hopkins denied any connection, some critics viewed these ritualistic pieces as an extension of Hopkins' fascination with alien beings. Hopkins viewed his sculpted guardians not as human per se, but as magical, fierce, noble robots of the unconscious. He settled in New York after obtaining his degree and has had a residence there ever since. He and his wife, April Kingsley, and their daughter, Grace, divide their time between their home at Cape Cod, Mass., and that in New York City. In his work, he travels widely. He has exhibited in England, Finland, Italy and Switzerland. In 1963, Hopkins was selected by the Columbia Broadcasting System as one of the 15 painters featured in the network's first television special on American art. In 1958, Art News picked him as one of 12 Americans for exhibition in Spoleto, Italy, in the "Festival of Two Worlds." His brilliance has won him a number of fellowships and awards. In 1972, the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council awarded him its Commission Prize. In 1976, he received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting and in '79 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He also won a special project grant from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1982. He was friends with Robert Ryman and many of the other 10th street avant garde artists. He was an original member of March Gallery which showed Alice Baber, Elaine de Kooning, Mark di Suvero, Lester Johnson, Matsumi Kanemitsu. His work was handled by Poindexter Gallery. (a major gallery founded in 1955 in New York City by Elinor Poindexter. The gallery specialized in sculpture, abstract, and figurative art and featured the works of such artists as Richard Diebenkorn, Jules Olitski, Nell Blaine, Al Held, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Earl Kerkam, Milton Resnick and Robert De Niro, among others. His art has been featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Guggenheim Museum, Queens Museum in New York, and the Public Library of New York. He was included in Young America 1960: Thirty American Painters Under Thirty-Six buy Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. Artists included: Sonia Gechtoff, Edward Giobbi, Ron Gorchov, James Harvey, Budd Hopkins, Wolf Kahn, Alex Katz, Robert Natkin, Rudy Pozzatti, Dean Richardson, Frank Roth, William Wiley, and Noriko Yamamoto...

Rene Duvillier (French, 1919-2002), "Arc en Ciel, Arc en Mer" 1990, oil on canvas, signed lower left, signed, titled, and dated verso, Provenance: gallery label from Galerie Mostini, Paris, France affixed verso, canvas: 25.5"h x 32"w, overall (with frame): 27.5"h x 33.75" Done in a bold, vibrant, blue with red and white. René Duvillier (1919-2002) Born in Oyonnax (Ain) and died in 2002 in Paris. French artist. Painter of the new school in Paris. Despite studying at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (workshop of Charles Guerin, pupil of Gustave Moreau), Duvillier nevertheless asserted himself to be self-taught. 1939-1945: Five years of captivity. Duvillier was deported to Ukraine and then to Poland for several escape attempts and for acts of resistance. 1945: moves to Paris. 1952: A decisive meeting with Charles Estienne , an influential critic who tried to reconcile gestural abstraction and surrealist automatism. This integrates him into the group of painters of the new school in Paris which he shows at the gallery of Babylon. This is how Duvillier got to know Jean Degottex, Jean Messagier, Hans Hartung, Charles Lapicque and Serge Poliakoff. He was very much supported by the critic to whom great intellectual complicity links him. 1954-1955: René Duvillier, invited to Brittany by Charles Estienne , discovers the sea: "I found the movement and the gesture, it was a dreadful shock" explains the painter. Duvillier painted a series of polychrome canvases (black, purple, blue) on the sea as well as the series of "Seahorses", colored inks on paper. He was part of the New Ecole de Paris along with Nicolas de Staël, André Lanskoy, Pierre Soulages, and Jean René Bazaine. 1966: Contacts with scientists (CERN, School of Chemistry, Faculty of Geneva ). Duvillier discovers an astonishing similarity between some of his works and photos of physical and cosmic phenomena. Professor at the National School of Architecture of Versailles. René Duvillier joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1935. After five years of captivity and an exhibition at the Stalag in Krakow, he joined the Nouvelle École de Paris. Under the guidance of the art critic Charles Estienne, it gathered painters from Surrealism and gesture or lyric abstraction that finally won the art scene in 1955. André Breton exhibited him and Benjamin Péret exalted his pictorial work, in which the brush movement brings to life natural elements, sea striking rocks and giving them almost supernatural attributes (1955). Select exhibitions 2010 - Ivre de peinture, Galerie Alain Margaron, Paris 2009 - René Duvillier, Galerie L'Or du Temps, Paris 2008 - Vous êtes le feu dans l'eau, Galerie Alain Margaron, Nice 2003 - Accrochage d'oeuvres de René Duvillier, Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris 2003 - Ici - Ailleurs, Galerie Doris Benno, Saint-Paul-De-Vence 1999 - À l'Ouest du Monde, FIAC, Paris 1993 - Le ciel de la mer, Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris 1987 - Peintures 1955-1983, Galerie Mostini, Paris 1986 - Galerie du Manoir, La Chaux de Fonds, Suisse 1971 - Ensemble de Peinture, Palais des Expositions, Genève 1970 - Têtes Chercheuses, Galerie Le Lutrin, Lyon 1965 - Benrath et Duvillier, Galerie Argos, Nantes 1964 - Galerie Byron, New York 1961 - La Mer des Vents, Galerie Smith, Bruxelles 1943 - La Genése, Stalag de Cracovie, Kobierzyn Select Group Exhibitions 2017 - Ailleurs est ici, École des Filles, Huelgoat 2017 - Le geste et la matière une abstraction "autre" Paris, 1945-1965, Fondation Clément/Centre Pompidou, Martinique 2011 - L'Aventure de l'Art Abstrait, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest, Brest 2008 - Les Nuagistes, Collégiale Saint-André, Chartres 2002 - Art ou Nature ?, Musée du Luxembourg, Luxembourg 1999 - Actualité des collections du XXe siècle 1996-1999, musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon 1999 - L'Intimité des dessins, Galerie Alain Margaron, Paris 1997 - Un combat pour l'Art Moderne, Hommage à René Déroudille., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon 1995 - Nantes et le surréalisme, Musée des beaux-arts de Nantes, Nantes 1991 - André Breton, La beauté convulsive, Centre George Pompidou, Paris 1990 - André Breton, Musée national, Madrid 1989 - I Surrealisti, Palazzo Reale, Milan 1987 - Le Visionnaire, Galerie du Manoir, La Chaux de Fonds, Suisse 1986 - Blanc/Noir/Blanc, Centre Culturel de Landerneau et Musée des Jacobins, Morlaix 1984 - Autour de Michel Ragon, Paris Art Center, Paris 1981 - Paris-Paris 1937-1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1980 - Bilan de l'art contemporain, Palais des Congrès, Québec 1973 - Exposition internationale du dessin original...

Abstract oil on canvas painting by Ivan Freitas. 25" x 31" inch canvas, framed to 30" x 36". Bearing a Barcinski Art Gallery label verso and a second label stating that the painting was sold in 1961 at a benefit auction for the Albert Einstein Hospital held at the Museum of San Paulo. Ivan Freitas was a Brazilian Postwar & Contemporary painter and Muralist (1932-2006) Son of muralist Severino Araújo, Ivan started painting as a self-taught artist. His first individual exhibition was at the Public Library, in 1957. With the success of the exhibition, he was able to move to Rio de Janeiro the following year, in 1958, where he came into contact with the work of artists such as Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte who influenced him. Between 1962 and 1963 he resided as a fellow in Paris. Between 1969 and 1972, he was on his second tour abroad, in New York City and commissioned by the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Back in Brazil, he painted a mural of over a thousand square meters on the external wall of the National School of Music in Rio de Janeiro in 1984 - the first of the Arte nos Muros Project. Still in the 70s, he married Dalva Mendes Gall whom he left after his death in 200, an extensive collection where one can find all the best works of this renowned Paraiba artist in Brazil and abroad. The stay in New York, from 1969 to 1972, was perhaps the greatest turning point in Ivan's career. Until then, according to art critic Roberto Pontual, the plastic artist followed "a phase of abstraction close to the informal". In the United States , with so much technological influence around him, Ivan becomes interested in the machine and its movement mechanisms and inserts these perceptions in his works, as kinetic constructions with small motors hidden in boxes as Pontual defines, and also and triggering light patterns in cyclic and repeated series. (similar to the Op Art works of Julio le Parc and works by Yves Tinguely being shown at Rene Denis Gallery in Paris In 1968, the magazine Galeria de Arte Moderna (GAM), published an article entitled Ivan Freitas and the Cosmic Space. In the Brazilian Dictionary of Plastic Artists , the Italian art critic Giuseppe Marchiori refers to Ivan Frentas as someone who "controls and dominates each part of the painting with a desire to deepen the image that surprises and enchants". Still according to the critic, Ivan is someone who preserves the mystery in the harmony between lines and the colorful atmosphere, where he creates pauses and rhythms for the reading of his "secret structures". Arte Neo Concreta artists Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica and Lygia Pape, were all contemporaries The poet Ferreira Gullar writes: "Freitas does not turn to the subjective world, does not inquire into the arcana of the unconscious; he inquires into the future and, in the solitude of his paintings, promises us a serene and orderly world. And, if in his landscapes man does not appear, it is not that this order excludes him - it is that he has not yet reached it. " Selec Solo Exhibitions 1957 - João Pessoa Public Library; João Pessoa, PB. 1960 - Ivan Freitas: Painting Exhibitions , at the Penguin Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1961 - MAM-BA , Salvador , BA. 1962 - Rubbers Gallery; Buenos Aires , Argentina . 1962 - La Cabana Galeria; Trieste , Italy . 1962 - Brazil-United States Cultural Institute; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1962 - Brazil-Uruguay Institute; Montevideo , Uruguay . 1962 - Barcinski Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1963 - Galleria Del Canale, Naples , Italy. 1963 - Ivan Freitas: Paris 1963, at the Barcinski Gallery ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1964 - Barcinski Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1966 - Relief Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1968 - Relief Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1969 - Pan American Union; Washington , United States. 1971 - Miramar Gallery; New York, United States. 1971 - Bloomingdale's Art Gallery; New York, United States. 1973 - Individual, at Galeria Bonino; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1973 - Galeria Collection; São Paulo , SP. 1974 - Ivan Freitas: Paintings / Objectives , at the Rio de Janeiro Art Exchange; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1975 - Arte Global Gallery; São Paulo-SP. 1976 - Ivan Freitas: Paintings / Space / Movement , at Galeria Ipanema; Sao Paulo-SP. 1977 - Paulo Prado Gallery; Sao Paulo-SP. 1978 - Paraíba State Cultural Foundation; João Pessoa, PB. 1979 - Gallery B. 75 Concorde; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1980 - Individual, at Galeria do Sesi; Sao Paulo-SP. 1980 - Paulo Prado Gallery; Sao Paulo-SP. 1986 - Ivan Freitas: The Reinvented Landscape , at Galeria Arte Aplicada; Sao Paulo-SP. 1987 - Applied Art Gallery; Sao Paulo-SP. 1989 - Evasion Arte Gallery; Sao Paulo-SP. 1994 - GB Arte Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. Select Group Exhibitions 1959 - 8th National Salon of Modern Art; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1960 - 9th National Salon of Modern Art; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1961 - 10th National Salon of Modern Art - jury exemption and critical award; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1961 - 6th São Paulo International Art Biennial , at the Ciccilo Matarazzo Pavilion; Sao Paulo-SP. 1963 - Art from America and Spain; Europe . 1963 - 2nd Youth Biennial; Paris, France. 1963 - 7th São Paulo International Art Biennial, at the Fundação Bienal; ; Sao Paulo-SP. 1964 - 2nd Art Summary of Jornal do Brasil, at MAM-RJ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1965 - Current Brazilian Art; Bonn , Germany . 1965 - Current Brazilian Art; London , England . 1965 - 1st Esso Young Artists Salon, at MAM-RJ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1965 - Opinion 65, at MAM / RJ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1965 - 1st Esso Salon of Young Artists, at MAC / USP; Sao Paulo-SP. 1965 - 8th São Paulo International Art Biennial, at the Fundação Bienal; Sao Paulo-SP.* 1965 - Current Brazilian Art; Vienna , Austria . 1966 - 5 Contemporary Painters from Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1966 - 5 Contemporary Painters from Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay. 1966 - 1st National Biennial of Plastic Arts; Salvador BA. 1967 - 9th Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo, at the Bienal Foundation; Sao Paulo-SP. 1968 - 2nd Esso Young Artists Salon, at MAM / RJ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1969 - 7th JB Art Summary, at MAM-RJ ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. Local de realização:(Brasil / Rio de Janeiro / Rio de Janeiro) Instituição de realização:Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Ficha Técnicado evento Resumo de Arte JB Artista participante: Anna Letycia, Darel, Farnese de Andrade, Fayga Ostrower, Flexor, Frans Krajcberg, Ione Saldanha...