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Period: 20th Century
Medium: Tempera
City Scene with Faces casein tempera on canvas by Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and dated "Vytlacil 32" lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist #1584; Martin Diamond Fine Art
Exhibitions: 1990 Graham Gallery, NYC (label verso)
About this artist: B...
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Casein, Canvas
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Prospector firing Rifle ( Happiness is a Warm Gun ) Gay Art
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
Robert Riggs was a gay man. Being gay in American during the 1940's time was something not to flaunt in public. Rigg's had to communicate his underlying feelings in more symbolic ways.
Throughout Riggs oeuvre, one sees continuous references to strong hunked out manly men and vulnerable boys. It is a core element of is iconography and is described in a powerful graphic style.
In “Prospector firing Rifle” is a Dick Pic. Riggs is clearly making a sexual statement about the moment of climax. The long, straight rifle explodes and is captured at the peak moment of climax. Meanwhile, the bag two bags of gold clearly resemble the other part of the male anatomy. Riggs was a thoughtful and meticulous visual thinker and nothing in any of Riggs’s compositions were haphazardly placed. In tribute to the artist’s suppressed feelings, I have given this work a second title “Happiness is a Warm Gun...
Category
1940s Academic Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Colliers Magazine 1947 American Scene Social Realism Modern Families in the Snow
Located in New York, NY
Colliers Magazine 1947 American Scene Social Realism Modern Families in the Snow
Katherine Wiggins (American 20th Century)
"The Shrimp"
20 x 24 inches
Egg tempera on masonite. c. 1...
Category
1940s American Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Masonite
Anemone Pool Abstraction
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on paper
Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his wo...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Army Poker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Army Poker, c. 1943, probably tempera on board, signed upper right, 16 x 20 inches, inscribed ver...
Category
1940s American Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Tempera
Anemone Pool Abstraction
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on paper
Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his wo...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
The Kiss
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind shaped painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Titled "The Kiss" and signed on reverse.
Painting is casein paint and plaster on board.
Catalogue of an exhibition in...
Category
1980s Outsider Art Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Casein, Wood Panel
The Sanctuary
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is titled "The Sanctuary" and signed.
Painting is casein paint and plaster on board.
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the Katzen...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Plaster, Casein, Wood Panel
Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1960s snake painting, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1967
Casein on board
Signed lower right
7.75 x 5.5 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a lev...
Category
1960s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
The Lonely Road by William Charles Palmer
Located in Hudson, NY
The Lonely Road (1940)
Tempera on panel
12" x 16"
19 1/2" x 23 1/2" x 1 1/2" framed
Hand-signed "Palmer '40" lower center.
Provenance: Midtown Galleries, New York, NY (labels verso...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Tempera
High Drama Adventure Scene - Italian Illustrator Mid-Century Jules Verne
Located in Miami, FL
Original illustration was done by Renna for the novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne, published in 1963. What makes this work special is how brilliantly the subj...
Category
1960s Surrealist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Tempera
Don Quixote - Nobleman on Horse with Sheep - Action Painting
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti depicts a dramatic scene from the epic Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. With unrivaled skill, Benvenuti captures a peak moment of drama when...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Pencil
Journey to the Center of the Earth Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
20th Century Italian Illustrator Gianna Renna depicts a emotionally-charged scene of three men on a raft descending into a fiery abyss. His conception and execution of Jules Verne's ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Ikebana Memories-2, Mixed Media on Paper "In Stock"
By Sanat Kar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sanat Kar - Ikebana Memories-2
22 x 19 inches (unframed size)
Mixed Media on Paper
1991
Style: Majority of Sanat Kar's works are surrealistic and have a curious dream-like appearan...
Category
1990s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Tempera
Fort of Khotyn
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Born on May 9, 1942, in the city of Chernivtsi. Graduated from the Moscow Higher Art and Industrial School (1972). Teachers in the specialty: A. Sklyarenko, I. Bogdashevsky, G. Vinog...
Category
1970s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Rome - Drawing by Viktor T - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
Rome is an original artwork realized in 1997 by Viktor T.
Tempera and Watercolor on paper that offers a view of Rome on Castel Sant'Angelo and the Church San Pietro in Vatican.
40...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera
Bonfire, Jubilee Night by Orovida Pissarro - Egg tempura painting, 1936
Located in London, GB
Bonfire, Jubilee Night by Orovida Pissarro (1893 - 1968)
Egg tempura on linen
86 x 111 cm (33 ⁷/₈ x 43 ³/₄ inches)
Signed and dated lower left
Executed in 1936
Provenance
Private co...
Category
1930s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Egg Tempera
Icon of Our Lady of Jerusalem with oklad by Oliver Samsinger
Located in Segovia, ES
Icon of Our Lady of Jerusalem.
Egg tempera on gesso and over a wooden board.
Dimensions in centimeters: 42 x 34 x 2 cm / In inches: 16.54 x 13-39 x 0-79 "
Author: Oliver Samsinger...
Category
1990s Byzantine Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Brass
Antique tempera painting on cardboard "Gouaches"
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique Neapolitan gouches with coeval frame belonging to the early 20th century.
The scene depicts Capri's famous grotto as seen from the deepest point.
Providing a perspective ba...
Category
20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Late 20th Century Still Life of Fruit Bowl w/ Bananas, Apples, Pears
Located in Beachwood, OH
Gretchen Troibner (American, b. 1953)
Fruit Bowl
Casein on paper
Initialed lower right
11.5 x 13 inches
19.5 x 21 inches, framed
Gretchen Troibner is an American artist whose primary media is painting gouache on paper. Troibner, born in Warren, Ohio in 1953, received her Bachelor’s in Art Education in 1975 as a joint degree from Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Institute of Art.
Troibner participated in many shows, especially in the 1980s, including the May Show, Butler Midyear Painting, and Case Western Reserve University Alumnae Show, winning the 1983 May Show First Prize Painting...
Category
Late 20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Art Deco British symbolist painting 'Triune' by Robert Arthur Wilson
By Robert Arthur Wilson
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
This artwork is a captivating representation of The Trinity, created by the British artist Robert Arthur Wilson. It vividly demonstrates Wilson's profound engagement with avant-garde theories related to colour, music, and emotion, which had a significant impact on his artistic vision. Wilson's exploration of colour abstraction was groundbreaking and played a pivotal role in establishing him as one of the most promising artists of his time. His innovative approach to colour abstraction is evident not only in the portrayal of the sky but also in the overall composition of this piece.
Robert Arthur Wilson (British, 1884 – 1979)
Triune
Tempera on panel
Signed ‘R.A. Wilson’ (lower right) and titled on a label on the reverse
29.1/8 x 29.1/8 in. (69 x 69 in. )
Robert Arthur Wilson was a British painter. Wilson was born in Sunderland in 1884. Leaving school at the age of thirteen, he was employed for a time as a bookkeeper before beginning an apprenticeship under a local sign...
Category
20th Century Symbolist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Tempera
Sun Cycles
Located in Lawrence, NY
Born in Germany, Weisenborn was an early American modernist painter. Encounters with the proto-cubist work of French artist Paul Cézanne and other avant-garde artists spoke to Weisen...
Category
1950s Hard-Edge Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Industry and Commerce, 1936, tempera on panel, 16 ½ x 39 ½ inches, signed verso “John Ballat...
Category
1930s American Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Myth III - British 1936 Modern art tempera painting Ida Graves poet family
Located in London, GB
This superb British 1930's modern art tempera painting is by noted interwar artist Blair Hughes-Stanton. Painted in 1936 it is part of the myth se...
Category
1930s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal
21 x...
Category
1940s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Ceremonial Dancers oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Artwork measures 48" x 30" and framed 56 ¼" x 38 ¼" x 3"
Provenance:
John Heller Gallery, NYC, circa 1975 (label verso)
The artist's daughter
Corbino Galleries, Sarasota, FL (1990)...
Category
1940s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
Ballerina dancer on vivid yellow and orange background
Located in Oostende, BE
Antoon Catrie (Ronsele, Belgium, 1924-1977), ‘Ballerina dancer’, oil on panel – tempera technique like in icons. The work is signed.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Tempera
Christmas Turkey & the General's Daughter painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
The artwork measures 18" x 24", and the frame 25" x 29.5" x 1.75". Upon request a video clip of this work may be provided.
About this artist:
Julio De Diego crafted a formidable per...
Category
1960s Surrealist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera, Paper
Girl with Cat
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Painting is made with casein on plaster on wood. Catalogue of a postumous ret...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Casein
Pavanne - 17th Century Court Dance - British exhibited Surrealist oil painting
By John Armstrong
Located in London, GB
Painted by "Modern British" Surrealist artist John Armstrong this oil/tempera on board depicts Pavanne. The Pavanne is a 17th century Court dance. The figures bunch up rhythmically and are almost camouflaged in the darkness, almost invisible. Quite what the significance in 1944 of this historical subject is, we are not sure, but the dark overtones in the shadowy large figures with golden head and glowing hands make it quite a mystical work. It is an almost Surreal Modern British artwork and a very interesting painting. The work is painted by a very rare to find artist who is highly sought after. The painting was dirty when purchased. However since cleaning the 80 years of dirt away it has revealed the stunning figure group with their heads and golden hands and the signature and date in the lower right. A real gem of a painting has been revealed with the restoration clean. It is an important early British Surrealist work and has excellent provenance.
Signed and dated 1944 lower right.
Provenance. Alex Reid / Lefevre Galler 1945.
Condition. oil/tempera on board, 34 inches by 20 inches unframed and in good condition.
Housed in its original fine gallery frame, 43 inches by 29 inches framed and in good condition.
John Rutherford Armstrong ARA (1893-1973) was a British artist and muralist who also designed for film and theatre productions. He is most notable for the Surrealist paintings he produced. Armstrong was born in Hastings in Sussex. His father was a clergyman and Armstrong was educated at St. Paul's School in London. He studied law at St. John's College, Oxford, but switched to art and became a student at St John's Wood Art School throughout 1913 and 1914. Armstrong served with some distinction in the Royal Field Artillery in Salonika during World War One before returning briefly to complete his studies at St John's Wood Art School. After a period of some economic hardship, Armstrong began to build a career as a theatre designer in London and to gain a client base for his artworks. He received a commission to decorate a room in the Portman Square home of the art collector Samuel Courtauld, and also painted a frieze for the ballroom at 1 Kensington Palace Gardens. Armstrong held his first solo exhibition in 1928 at the Leicester Galleries in London. In 1933 he joined Unit One and displayed a set of semi-abstract paintings at their one, extended, exhibition. Throughout the 1930s Armstrong continued to work as a designer as he also continued to develop his art. He produced a number of remarkable posters for Shell and also produced four posters for the General Post Office. Armstrong designed a number of book covers for the Hogarth Press...
Category
1940s Surrealist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Jamini Roy "Mother and Child" Original Painting
By Jamini Roy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jamini Roy: 1887-1972. Extremely well listed and important Indian artist. He has auction prices over $573,000 which was just last month. His works are considered National Treasures a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Refreshment and Intermission
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Refreshment and Intermission, tempera on board, 11 x 19 inches, c. 1930/40s, signed lower middle, exhibited at Groom's one person show at Closson’s Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, March, 1943 (see The Cincinnati Enquirer, March 7, 1943, section 3, p. 4); provenance includes a private Ohio collection; presented in a period gold painted frame
About the Painting
Refreshment and Intermission is part of a series of paintings of Amish subjects Grooms started in 1938 based on his travels in Pennsylvania. These tempera works reflect the Regionalist impulse to paint local scenes far away from big cities. Focusing on both people and landscape, Grooms' compositions tell the stories of the uniquely American experience of the Amish. “Grooms paints the Amish people with as much understanding of type and appreciation of the plastic quality as any artist who has approached this challenging subject," noted the art critic for The Cincinnati Inquirer when reviewing Grooms' solo exhibition at Closson' Gallery, "In his current show, ‘Refreshment and Intermission,’ is a case in point. Here the absorbed concentration of people eating is described without an ounce of sentimentality. He has made the most of the interest between groups and of the conversations, both humorous and serious. The work has the quaint simplicity of a Lord’s Supper...
Category
1930s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
At the Winery - Hungarian Art
Located in London, GB
This original painting is hand signed by the artist "Scheiber H" in the lower left corner,
and dated "1940" below the signature.
Exhibited: Hugo Scheiber - Bela Kadar, Galerie Le Mi...
Category
1940s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache
Virgin of Kataphyge and St. John, after a Byzantine Bulgarian Icon 14th Century
Located in Segovia, ES
The Virgin of Kataphyge with Saint John the Evangelist, after a Bulgarian Byzantine icon of the 14th Century.
Egg tempera and gold leaf on gesso and wood.
Author: Oliver Samsinger...
Category
Early 1900s Byzantine Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
At the Beach - Tempera and Watercolor by Aldo Riso - 1970s
By Aldo Riso
Located in Roma, IT
At the beach is an artwork realized by Aldo Riso.
Mixed colored tempera and watercolor painting.
Titled on lower left.
Frame included: 70.5 x 91.5 cm
This beautiful mixed media...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera
Portrait - Tempera on Board by Virgilio Guidi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original artwork realized by Virgilio Guidi in the half of 20th century.
Tempera on board
Good conditions.
Includes frame.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Virgili...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
The Rest, Egg Tempera, 20th Century English Painting
Located in London, GB
Egg Tempera on board, signed
Image size: 19 x 15 inches (48 x 38 cm)
Gilt frame
Plummer specialised in the medium of egg tempera, a technique little used since the frescos of the Re...
Category
20th Century Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Sunny face. Bilateral. Cardboard, tempera, 53x35.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunny face. Bilateral. Cardboard, tempera, 53x35.5 cm
Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator.
Born in Riga in a Russian-Polish-German family.
Vladimir Glushenkov...
Category
1990s Impressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Tempera
Floating Woman - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Floating Woman is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974.
Tempera and white lead on cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good conditions with foxing on t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cardboard
Alice in her Wonderland Bedroom - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1992
Located in Roma, IT
Alice in Her Wonderland Bedroom is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1992.
Tempera and white lead on cardboard.
Hand-signed, titled and dated on the lower margin
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Tempera
Portrait of Ligabue - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Ligabue is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1997.
Tempera and Watercolor on Cardboard
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good conditions.
Sergio Bar...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Birth of Venus - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Birth of Venus is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1991.
Tempera and Watercolor on Cardboard
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good conditions.
Sergio Barletta...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Matador - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Matador is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1989.
Tempera and watercolor on Cardboard
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good conditions with some foxing.
Sergio...
Category
1980s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Movement of a Lady while Being Photographed - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Movement of a Lady while being photographed is a painting artwork applied on cardboard, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1991.
Tempera and white lead on cardboard.
Hand-signed, title...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Femme en Larmes - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1993
Located in Roma, IT
Femme en Larmes is a mixed media artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1993.
Pastel, Watercolor, and Collage on cardboard, applied on a white passepartout. 50x 70 cm.
Hand-signed...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Obsession - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
Obsession is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1997.
Tempera, Collage, and Watercolor on Cardboard
Hand-signed, titled, and dated on the lower margin.
Good cond...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Christ, the Great High Priest. Greek-Italian style Icon with silver oklad
Located in Segovia, ES
Christ, the Great High Priest. Greek-Italian style Icon with silver filigreed oklad.
Egg tempera, over gesso on wood with a silver cover, "oklad", with pol...
Category
1990s Byzantine Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver
Oil Painting Titled "The Death of Crispus Attucks", by Thomas Dietrich, 1943
Located in New York, NY
Thomas M. Dietrich 1912-1998
The Death of Crispus Attucks, 1943
Tempera and oil on board
21 x 15 inches
Signed and dated: Tom Dietrich 1943
Thomas M. Dietrich was an artist in residence at Lawrence College for 30 years and painted in the American Regionalist style. He exhibited yearly at the Art Institute of Chicago where he also received the acclaimed International William Tuthill Prize for watercolors in 1941 (Charles Burchfield won the associated Logan prize that same year) Dietrich also received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation fellowship and was a founding member of the Wisconsin Watercolor Society.
In 1943 Deitrich painted The Death of Crispus Attucks, depicting the historical battle known as the Boston Massacre...
Category
1940s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera
Totem - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Totem is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1991.
Tempera and Watercolor on Cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good conditions.
Sergio Barletta (1934) ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Femme en Larmes - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of an Actress is a mixed media artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1991.
Tempera, watercolor and white lead on cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cardboard
Jimbo Jump - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Jimbo Jump is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1992.
Tempera and white lead on cardboard.
Hand-signed, titled, and dated on the lower.
Good conditions.
Sergio...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
'The Harmonica Player', Bay Area Modernism, San Francisco Art Institute, Harp
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Earl Thollander' (American, 1923-2001) and painted circa 1955; additionally signed, verso, on paper and titled, 'The Harmonica Pla...
Category
1950s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein, Board
The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Exhibited
1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 42" x 2"
About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
St. Atomic oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Exhibited
1950 University of Illinois at Urbana "Contemporary American Painting"
1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 36" x 2".
About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
Marine - Tempera on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1927
By Lucie Navier
Located in Roma, IT
Marine is a painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1927.
Tempera on paper.
Mint conditions.
Impressionistic work realized with a Realistic technique and representing a natural...
Category
1920s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Inevitable Day – Birth of the Atom oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Bibliography
Art in America, April 1951, p.78
About this artists: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
The Vegetable Seller, Mauritius
Located in London, GB
Tempera on board, 87cm x 60cm (framed 106cm x 78cm).
Stuart Maxwell Armfield (1916-2000) was renowned for his use of the traditional egg tempera technique, a skilled process that us...
Category
1940s Post-War Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
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