Stephen Farrell

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An original gouache painting on board by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980). By the early 1930s he had established a reputation as a member of the international avant-garde and...

Born in 1958. At his first personal exhibition (greeted by "Le Matin"), he is still a high school student. At the workshops of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he prefers the personal research on the questioning of the paint of the painting that he does not hesitate to exhibit in the Salons (Big and Young, May, etc. ...) and which is split up with a mystic and barbarous vision applied to the installation, at Land-art. In 1983, on his first visit to the USA, discovers the Hopi in the heart of the "American Dream". Violence of the figure. He then weaves in New York, Toulouse, Brussels, Paris the conjunction installation-drawing over many galleries. In 1988, he entered the Galerie Krif (Paris) and immersed himself in the myth of Moby Dick. Many exhibitions (Brussels, Tarbes, Lyon, Rennes) while teaching at the School of Fine Arts in Bourges. Henri Basmadjian died in December 1993. Homage to Furea Koral's 40th Year in Art showed with Osman Dinç, Song S, Daniel Buren Ten Artists Ten Works: Henri Basmadjian, Canan Beykal, John Latham, Osman Dinç Sabri Berkel

Ville by LÉOPOLD SURVAGE (1879-1968) Oil and graphite on canvas 73.4 x 60 cm (28 ⁷/₈ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed and dated lower right, Survage 24 This work is an early 1924 painting...

Artist Commentary: A piece about the "stuff" we buy. What's it for? Is it worth it? How do we affect nature with these decisions? Shape shifts between resembling an old ship and a mo...