Sylvain Vigny

The Crosses

frame with glass pane Dimension with frame 66 x 85 x 3 cm This abstract artwork immediately captures attention with its bold palette of swirling reds, blacks, and blues. The dynam...

Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 56.5 x 66 x 2.2 cm

Work on canvas

This abstract work of art captures attention with its dynamics and depth. Vigorous brushstrokes in midnight blue, bright white and earthy orange intertwine with palpable intensity, ...

An original abstract work by Paul Sonnabend (b.1957), depicting the Crucifixion of Jesus. Captured in an array of expressive colour. Initialled to the lower right and dated 1999. On ...

Christ (The Crucifixion) by Jean Pierre Stagnaro (French, 1960's) signed, titled and dated verso oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 15 inches pr...

As a former Catholic I cannot get the imagery of the faith out of my head or thoughts. The cross is a logo, a symbol for a brand and it haunts. This painting is just the most recent....

William Scharf Tropic of Crucifix, 1957 Signed and dated on the reverse Oil on canvas 40 x 47 inches Provenance: The artist Robert Barnet, New York (gift from the above) Private Collection, by descent A visionary painter with ties to the avant-garde artistic community in New York at midcentury, William Scharf nevertheless defies art historical categorization. His abstracted compositions of organic and geometric formal elements recall the free associations of Surrealism and the all-over grandeur of Abstract Expressionism, and at the same time embody a very individual and immediately recognizable pictorial sense. Scharf combines virtuoso paint handling, vibrant color, and rich symbolic language in canvases that engage the viewer in a transcendent and emotional dialogue. This dialogue is accomplished in part through recurring symbols, which allude to hidden, mysterious narratives. Scharf plumbs the psychological wells of collective myths for symbolic content: the crown of thorns, the ladder, the fish, and the cross can be found throughout, functioning not, as one might expect, as religious symbols, but rather as a means through which to access a deeper, symbolic level of visual communication. Born in 1927 in Media, Pennsylvania, an early friendship with renowned artist N.C. Wyeth encouraged Scharf’s artistic efforts from a very young age. After a time with the Army Air Corps in the mid-1940s, Scharf formalized his art studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Franklin Watkins...