Max Mansell

The Black Serpent

1991

Dorothy Napangardi was one of the leading Australian Aboriginal artists who has had her work hung at museums around the world. On the verso of this ...

Artist: Jenik Cook, American (1940 - ) Title: Untitled IV Year: 2010 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated Size: 22 in. x 28 in. (55.88 cm x 71.12 cm)

Artist: Gregory Amenoff, American (1948 - ) Title: Guardian Knot Year: 1985 Medium: Oil, Oil pastel, Watercolor, Gouache and Pencil on Paper, signed and dated l.r. Size: 36 x 51.75 i...

Artist: Jenik Cook, American (1940 - ) Title: Abstract Composition I Year: 2012 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.l. and verso Size: 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm)

Acrylic & oil on wooden panel Marie-Pierre Autonne is a French artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Angers, France. She studied at Penninghen in Paris, France. She worked for se...

Stunning large scale abstract with tribal, primordial symbolism and a dark, textural aesthetic by Marc Foster Grant (American, b. 1947), c.2000s. Intentional craquelure and impasto s...

Yannima Tommy Watson is a Pitjantjatjara artist born around the 1930s, in the bush some 44km west of the small isolated community of Irrunytju. Not yet very well known to the French public, despite his participation in the architectural project of the Musée du Quai Branly, Tommy Watson is nevertheless often considered the greatest living Aboriginal artist. Like many aborigines of his generation, he lived a traditional, nomadic or semi-nomadic life before his contact with Western civilization; then he will occupy the only jobs that the Aborigines find: herdsmen (until Yuendumu), laborers for the construction of infrastructures in the desert. Throughout this period he became familiar with his "country", a harsh region, and deepened his knowledge, both profane and sacred, relating to Dreams and Dreamtimes, to the connections between sacred sites and the Ancestors. He will even work in Papunya, where the artistic movement started. But the Pijantjarra are intransigent with tradition…no question at this time of revealing the motives and the secret stories. The North of South Australia, the region where he is from, was touched by the pictorial movement only at the very beginning of the 2000s. In 2001, Tommy began his career as an artist in Irrunytju (Wingellina). He is a young artist… He learns by observing other painters and draws on the experiences of a long life and on the exceptional knowledge he has stored up. But quickly he will find his way, a radically new style where color plays a major role. Very quickly, the iconography now well known by the artists of Yuendumu, or the Western Desert, Balgo or Lajamanu disappeared. The symbols are no longer there. As Rover Thomas, Emily Kame or Paddy Bedford had done before him, this is a real artistic revolution. For Tommy, it is not a question of describing his Dream (Caterpillar), the routes taken by the Ancestors. He concentrates on a site, a story, sometimes very profane, the memory of a meeting, of a hunting party, tries to condense his memories, the information of which he is the depositary, to add a poetic touch to it, sometimes melancholy, and this gives a painting with a very abstract aspect. It is a painting where the emotion is very present, undoubtedly less cerebral than the art of the neighbors of the north the Pintupi, like Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, George...

Thick, vibrant, oils on canvas influenced by the color, movement and texture found in the natural world around us. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certif...