Carole Hand

'Jazz Figures', San Francisco Bay Area Woman Artist, Post-Impressionist

1998

Painted by Dan May (American, 1952-2019) circa 2010, and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. After study with Larry Stobie at Oregon College of Education, Dan May e...

Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1978. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. She later earned a bachelor's degree at Dominican College in San Rafael and, in 1971, a graduate degree in at California State University in San Francisco. From Inverness, California, north of San Francisco and working from a studio in Point Reyes, Inez Storer creates mixed-media narrative paintings, collages and assemblages in naive-sophisticated style, which she describes as Magic Realism: "I am a visual raconteur. I use paint to tell stories." Most of these stories are explorations of the human condition with characters who seem allegorically to be walking tightropes. She gets many ideas from her studio collection of old postcards, toys, photos and other random items that she often incorporates into her work. Inez Storer is also known for her prints and drawings. Storer was born in Los Angeles to German parents who left that country in 1933 to avoid Hitler. Her father got a job in Hollywood with Billy Wilder as an art director, and her mother was an actress and dancer. Inez spent much time as a child on movie sets. She was raised a Catholic as her parents wanted no one to know her mother was Jewish and uses Catholic imagery in her work. In 1974, she met Andrew Romanoff, a Russian artist who became her second husband. In this marriage, she became a part of Russian royalty because Andrew was the grand nephew of the Czar Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor...

Signed upper left, 'May' for Dan May (American, 1952-2019) and dated June, 2017. After study with Larry Stobie at Oregon College of Education, Dan May exhibited in his galleries 'Th...

Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1979. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Instit...

Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1979. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Instit...

A large and dramatic portrait of a young Spanish woman shown formally dressed with a lace mantilla and a head-dress laced with red roses and holding an o...

The city we live in today. We can call it a city of buildings, of people. In this work, the garbage stack can be in the surroundings of your city. Chaurasiya experiments with his me...

Peter Peereboom (1952) graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. He has various solo shows on his name including Centre Pompidou Paris in ...

Acrylic and paper collage on canvas Richard Boigeol is a French artist born in 1959 who lives & works in Marseille, France. Richard Boigeol is an artist at heart, music plays a cent...

Zebra I (2022), work on paper, hand painted multiple, animal and foliage, neo impressionist, botanical, pastels, aqua and lime green, black and white zebra "Zebra I," (2022) by arti...

Acrylic paint and ink on paper pasted on canvas Hand-signed by the artist

A uniquely hand painted print from the original panting by the artist. The print feature a unique combination of lines, symbols, drawing and words painted by the artist on the surfac...