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Neo-Expressionist Head

1983

Felipe Orlando (Cuban-Mexican, 1911-2001). Coronel Retirado y su Amante Esposa, ca. 1970. Ink and gouache on paper with heavily built up layers of textured ground. Measures 13 1/4 x 18 3/8 inches. Signed lower left. Original label affixed on verso. Excellent condition. Unframed. An anthropologist as well as a painter and engraver, Orlando, whose full name was Felipe Orlando Garcia Murciano, studied at the University of Havana and at the painting workshop of Jorge Arche and Víctor Manuel. He was a founding member of the Asociación de Pintores y Escultores de Cuba (APEC) and a professor at the Universidad de las Américas and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, both in Mexico City. His style is influenced by the Afro-Cuban movement and pre-columbian art...

Beautiful ca.1930 double-sided abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). On the Docks, Sunset. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20.5 inches. S...

Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Docks, Sunrise, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 16 x 21 inches. Signed lower margin. ...

Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). At the Weir Trap, ca. 1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20 inches. Signed lower margi...

Beautiful double-sided abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Docks in Winter, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15.25 x 20.5 inches. Si...

Bruno Lucchesi (b.1926). Mother and Child, ca. 1960. Oil and charcoal on sized paper mounted to masonite, measuring 11 x 21 inches; 15.5 x 25.5 inches in original gold leaf frame. Si...

In this magnificent sensual abstract painting by Andrew Lui, grand gestural brushstrokes create nude human figures who appear to emerge from a riot of colour. In 'The Tall Ladies', t...

Horses and riders swirl in this dream-like narrative in brilliant yellow, orange nad indigo by Andrew Lui. The artist creates fluid lines using ink and acrylic on rice paper that is ...

Passages of black and grey lit with subtle marks of ecrue, pink, blue and yellow bring to life Andrew Lui's theme of inexorable change. Born in Guangzhou, China, Lui participated in the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a member of the Red Guard but escaped to Hong Kong in 1970. Making his way to Toronto, Lui studied at the Ontario College of Art before traveling to the UK, and Italy. In Florence, he was drawn to the dynamic Uccello's Battle of San Romano (c. 1456). Lui is represented in multiple public, corporate and private collections in Canada, Europe and China: Musée d'art contemporain, Musée de Dijon, France, L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles, Pallazo Strozzi, Florence, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, Grimsby Art Gallery, Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Stratford, Stratford, Coburg Art Gallery, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Canadiana Foundation (Art Collection of Governor General of Canada). He is part of a large number of private and corporate collections, including HSBC of Canada, DKNY and Sun Life Insurance...

Abstract artist Andrew Lui’s ethereal work is rooted in history; that of his own in China and the world around him. Lui’s fluid lines and vivid colours were influenced by his love of...

Existing in an amorphous space between abstraction and figuration abstract artist Andrew Lui paints with the fluidity of eastern calligraphy. Brilliant and energetic strokes of yello...

Dynamic black and gray strokes of acrylic paint give the impression of galloping horses in this abstract painting by Andrew Lui. Lui continues to use the expressive and elegant movem...