Michael Alford

Sleeping Nude - original impressionist figure study woman interior oil impasto

2023

Contemporary painter Michael Alford creates a beguiling impression of a young woman in an interior environment. This piece is employed with the artist’s unique, signiture mark-making...

This classical impressionist artwork by Michael Alford captures a beguiling interacting between two flamenco dancers. Utilising traditional brushwork, the artist produces an impressi...

The contemporary painter Kelly-Anne Cairns imparts a sensual portrait of a woman, attractively framed within an impression of a beach environement. It is evident in this figurative a...

The contemporary painter Kelly-Anne Cairns imparts a sensual portrait of a seated woman, attractively framed within an impression of an interior. It is evident in this figurative art...

The contemporary painter Kelly-Anne Cairns imparts a sensual portrait of a seated woman, attractively framed with bright fields of colour a coral robe. It is evident in this figurati...

Contemporary realist painter James Zamora presents a beguiling portrait of a simple floral bouquet that is attractively rendered with a palette of soft pink and grey tones. The artis...

A very beautiful mid 19th century impressionist oil on panel by the French painter Pierre Édouard Frère. The work depicts a young boy running in the snow and is very well executed. Signed with the artist's stamp lower right. Presented in a fine gilt frame. Artist: Pierre Édouard Frère (French, 1819-1886) Title: Boy in the Snow Medium: Oil on panel Size: 15.5 x 13.5 inches (40 x 34 cm) including frame Pierre Édouard Frère studied under Paul Delaroche, entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1836 and exhibited first at the Salon in 1843. Among his chief works are the two paintings, Going to School and Coming from School, The Little Glutton (his first exhibited picture) and L'Exercice (in the 19th century this work was in John Jacob Astor's collection). A journey to Egypt in 1860 resulted in a small series of Orientalist subjects, but the majority of Frère's paintings deal with the life of the kitchen, the workshop, the dwellings of the humble, and mainly with the pleasures and little troubles of the young, which the artist brings before us with humor and sympathy. He was one of the most popular painters...

A wonderful three quarter portrait of a boy in a straw hat peeling a piece of fruit, probably an orange, by Italian artist Eugene Von Blaas (1843-1942). Von Blaas was born to Austria...

Beautiful young lady in a Paris Park, signed, Original Frame, listed size includes the frame.

A plein air painting of a plein air painter! An impressionistic oil painting of an artist friend, Ben Fenske, painting outdoors. Painted in Italy, American realist painter, Marc Dale...

Signed impressionist oil on panel portrait circa 1910 by French painter Armand Francois Henrion. The work depicts a happy, smiling Pierrot - a French clown - with his face painted white wearing white ruffles and a mint green hat. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 9"x7.5" Unframed: 7"x5.5" Provenance: Private French collection Armand François Joseph Henrion...

Ron Hick's (US based) "Auroral Continuum" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto rendering of a Black female model surrounded with gestural color fields of white and grey. About the Artist: Ron Hick's works have been characterized as a blend of representational art and impressionism. Some critics have compared them to paintings by Rembrandt and Daumier. The 40-year old artist translates his own moody visions with a muted palette and rarely uses pure color. He particularly favors the variety he finds in gray. "Gray allows me to capture atmosphere, mood, and layers of emotion," he says. "Gray sets the tone for the rest of the painting." Shelves in the artist's studio are lined with art books about Nicolai Fechin, James Whistler and William Merritt Chase. There are also volumes featuring Hicks' main muses John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas and Diego Velazquez. As an artist, his philosophy involves guiding the viewer through a painting, much like his artistic idols, by striking a balance between revealing too little and not enough detail. "It's a very delicate balance," Hicks says. It's no surprise that Ron Hicks spurns the academic approach to figure painting, which requires exactness-too stiff and boring, he says. It's also a method that can yield models with pained expressions. His creative process involves explaining an idea for a pose to a model and then waiting for her to strike a comfortable facsimile. "The best postures are the ones that just happen; then the models stay comfortable," he says. "I don't want to paint a pose that is unnatural and has nothing to do with actual life." If one asks Hicks about his favorite subject matter he replies without hesitation, "figures and interiors." But he quickly qualifies "figures" by saying that painting them is really about painting shapes of color. "I am a shape guy. By that I mean I see things more in terms of shape rather than the objects or people," he says. "Everything is about shape, medium shape vs. large shape, lighter shape vs. darker shape." Hicks has been interested in art since he was 4 years old and growing up in Columbus, Ohio. His mother pursued art as a hobby and took correspondence courses. The young Hicks would scan the critiques of his mother's works and then trace some of the assignments himself. As his talents became known in his neighborhood, he was called on to draw things for community events. In high school, he learned how to use his skills as a weapon. When the class bullies hazed him, for example, he drew outrageous caricatures of them. He still recalls entertaining his school friends with a sketch of the class bully he depicted with enormous ears like the cartoon elephant Dumbo. After high school, Hicks attended classes at the Columbus College of Art and Design on scholarship. He eventually moved west where he graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art and studied with Quang Ho at the Art Students League there. As a class monitor for Ho, he spent extra time talking and listening to him. Today he credits his teacher with exposing him to a new way of seeing. "A light bulb was turned on. I started seeing things in terms of shapes and edges, texture, line and color," he says. "I no longer saw painting as a way of just transferring information; I started looking at what I wanted to say in a piece. After graduating from college, Hicks worked for a time as a freelance illustrator. He also worked as a manager for a satellite dish...