Linda Touby
Je T'aime 8
2018

Name: Je T'aime 8
Brand: Linda Touby
Price: 10500 USD
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About the Item

'Je T'aime 8' by Linda Touby, 2018. Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. This painting features textural, cumulative layers of brushstrokes on a flat field of color. The floating zones of luminous pigments are in colors of red, pink, and yellow. The swaths of color reach out to the very edge of the canvas meeting the pink vertical and horizontal striped bands that borders the painting. The drama and intensity of the "Je T’aime" series flow from Touby’s intense love for long time husband and renowned 'monster' artist, Basil Gogos, who passed away in the Fall of 2017. The artist's deepest feelings, expressed on canvas, are a celebration of love and an outlet for personal grief. Tapping into personal torment and feelings through her art, Touby deviated from previous works of neatly aligned, uniform color fields. Instead, allowing her raw emotions to shape the work, these paintings incorporate paint drips, splatters, and gestural marks on transparent fields of colors that bleed into each other, often overlaying one contrasting color over another. A native of Florida, Linda Touby moved to New York as a teenager and earned her BA Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She thereafter attended The Art Student's League studying under the tutelage of renowned painter Richard Pousette-Dart. Touby has been exhibiting her paintings for the past 30 years and has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries, both nationally and internationally including the Museum Fur Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt (1999), Germany, and the US Embassies in Kuwait, Belgrade, Bujumbura Burundi, and Paris. Her paintings have been incorporated in many private and public collections, including General Motors Corporation, Phillips Corporation, Bertholon - Roland Corporation, and the United States State Department in Washington, DC.

Creator:

Linda Touby (1946, American)

Creation Year:

2018

Dimensions:

Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil

Movement & Style:

Abstract

Period:

2010-