Fortune Hunter

Oil Painting on Wood, Surrealist Dreamy Painting, Blue, Black Colours

2021

Initialed lower left, 'RCW' for Richard Whitten (American, born 1958) and dated, lower right, in Roman numerals, 2009. Formerly in the collection of the Triton Art Museum, Santa Clara, California. Whitten's early work may loosely be termed geometric abstraction, but he is best known for his later representational paintings that combine his interest in architecture, invented machinery and toys. Whitten is also known for his toy-like sculptures. His paintings and drawings are essentially representational but have strong ties to geometric abstraction. A native of New York City, Richard Whitten first attended the Collegiate School before studying economics at Yale where he received his BA in 1980. He then constructed a personal painting program at Yale where he studied with Gretna Campbell...

Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - cubist composition - Oil panel Oil measurements 50x42 cm. Frame measurements 58x50 cm. The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, ...

David Cheifetz's "Seed of Icarus" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blue background dotted with grapes hanging from stems and one red grape with a halo of yellow a...

Oil on canvas. Image size, 24H x 30L. Signed verso.

signed ‘ozenfant’ (lower right) Provenance: Sale: Christie's London, 4 April 1989, lot 198 Dr. Arthur Brandt, New York (acquired at the above sale) Literature: P. & M. Guénégan, 'A...

In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...