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Le Café , Large Scale Parisian Café Terrace Scene

Late 20th Century

Early 20th Century French oil on canvas landscape of a picnic on a riverbank by René Albert Raphaël Gouin. The painting is signed bottom right and there are stencil stamps to the bac...

Large surrealist contemporary oil on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W, signed and dated bottom left and signed and titled 'She brought Colour into his Life' to the reverse. This piece whilst wonderfully colourful, playful and erotic is typical of the witty sense of humour this artist displays in all his work. Docherty likes to tease us visually and asks questions and presents conundrums to the viewer. Frank McLean Docherty was born in Glasgow , Scotland in 1942. He became a student at Glasgow School of Art in 1960 and graduated from the Department of Printed Textiles in 1964. He taught in a secondary school in the East End of Glasgow for two years, thereafter departing to work in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland as a textile designer (Marks & Spencer, Heals and Liberty of London). He was also an illustrator for a range of newspapers and an Art Director of magazines. In 1973, he was appointed Principal Teacher of Art in a Scottish High School and in 1978 was honoured by the Queen when he was appointed Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (R.S.W.) He left education in 1994. Since that time he has developed a vision which is quite unique in Scottish Art. Bank Managers, toucans, lighthouses, penguins, bowler hats, Frank Docherty...

Two figures float in a dark charcoal black ocean with their arms outstretched while cumulus clouds float in the coral sky overhead. Signed, dated and titled on verso. David Konigsbe...

"Sur la Terrace” Oil Painting 25.5" x 25.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept and the subject of the orientalism and the enchantment of that period. Through her work we can feel the researches she has done to reveal her Egyptian origins and the magic and power of the bygone times. Katherine Bakhoum has succeeded in imprinting her own stamp to evoke a new world full of charm, nostalgia and magic that is deeply implanted in her canvas. Her power dwells in creating her own style of contemporary expressionism building upon the old orientalism. Katherine Bakhoum’s art comes up out of an Egyptian childhood and from the distance of a life spent in France. What is left unsaid is as important as what is shown. Decorative yes, as in old orientalism, when everything was texture and what wasn’t texture was veiled, a reincarnation of old spirits, dervishes, orientalist motifs and the stuff of a once powerful civilization, the better to suggest it all might just come to life again. The choice of ancient subject matters, the echo of orientalist pieces in the collages, like the echo of the appeal of ancient gestures, of foreign lands, and domestic tapestries, all this weaves up out of Katherine Bakhoum’s creations. Sometimes we only have the line of a horizon on which to hang our imagination, sometimes we only have the trace of a profile in the shadows. What we always have is a persistent belief in beauty. Where there is beauty, there is hope. Katherine Bakhoum has abandoned neither. SOLO EXHIBITIONS Claudine Legrand Gallery: Annual exhibitions from 1996 to 2016 Safar Khan Gallery, Cairo: Annual exhibitions from 1999 to 2018 Galerie la Sirène, Le Mans 2010 Galerie Ghislaine Eonnet-Dupuy, St Briac 2008 2009 Green art gallery Dubai 2009 Galerie La Medina, Tunis 2001 Italian Cultural Institute, Cairo 1999 Gallery Lézard d'Ailleurs 1998 Influence Gallery 1997 Bruno Delarue Gallery Etretat 1997 Jolymont workshops in Brussels 1996 Gallery Lézard d'Ailleurs St Rémy de Provence 1995 Etienne Causans Gallery 1995 Gallery Art 50 1994 Gallery Art 50 1993 Anne Vignial Gallery 1992 Galerie Escalier Rouge, Ouagadougou 2002 City of Arts, Florence Foundation 1992 Galerie Peinture Fraiche...