Marthe Orant

“Petunias”

Circa 1950

Oil on artist canvas board by the well known artist Nicolas Cikovsky of a vibrant floral bouquet. Signed lower right. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in its original frame. Overall framed measurements are 21.75 by 17.5 inches Landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky, 1894-1984, was born in Russia, where he studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art...

Here for your consideration is a beautiful still life of assorted fruit on a blue plate by the well known American artist, Robert Brackman. Signed lower right. Titled and signed ver...

Here for consideration is a richly painted in a thick impasto technique; a vibrant and stylized vase overflowing with poppies and sunflowers. Signed by the artist Edith E. Ferullo lower right “Ferullo” and dated 1974. Condition of the painting is excellent. The painting is housed in a period burnt orange period wood frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 31 by 16 inches. Provenance: A Ellenton, Florida collector. Edith E. Ferullo was born in 1928 and is known for her mid century and post modern paintings...

Original oil on artist board still life of a vase of beautiful flowers with an apple. The artist is Robert Alan Waltsak. . Signed lower right by the artist. Condition is excellent ...

Very well executed oil painting on heavy card stock of a still life of flowers with a active bird’s nest by the well known British artist, Oliver Clare. Signed lower right and dated...

Original oil paint on heavy card stock of a european thatched cottage near a stream by the American impressionist artist, Bird Lefever. Signed lower right. Condition is very good; n...

French post modern oil on board of a tablescape, tulips, carafe and three fruits. Signed Henri Chapignue and dated 1975. An arresting and highly energ...

One of the most confounding paintings in this exhibition is “The Painting, As Seen by the Wall”. Mastromatteo depicts a bare canvas, framed in reverse, turned-around. He presents the...

"White Picket Fence (Aspirational Memoir)" is inspired by Toni Morison's The Bluest Eye. The focal point is a bright green square, encased with a picket- fence made of white tape. I...

Is NOT is a present day vanitas still life. A meditation on the ephemerality of life and the things we hold dear. The fragility of the statement "time is not money" is represented in...

"Lovely Mary Jane" is a Post-Modern painting inspired by The Bluest Eye by Toni Morison. Lovely Mary Jane is a candy wrapper, taped to a blue wall. It’s trash, glorified. But this is not a political statement about commercialism or recycling. This painting was inspired by one of the top 10 banned books across the country, Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” which is about a young black girl who wishes she had blue eyes, an envy shaped from her love of her favorite candy, Mary Jane. It’s a heartbreaking notion caused by an ideal of beauty perpetuated by a marketing campaign for a sweet treat. Classical painting also hails a certain ideal of beauty… and one wouldn’t usually find something as insignificant as a candy wrapper as the focal point of their pièce de résistance. However, Mastromatteo is asking us to see that here is power in idealization, especially in something so seemingly throwaway. He’s prodding us to be more aware…to make people aware of the significance of the seemingly insignificant. The one power an artist possesses is that of forcing the viewer to look at something of his choosing…and in this case he’s asking us to look at something that may be garbage. Consider Maurizio Cattelan, whom in 2019 taped a banana to the wall with duct tape, and it later sold for $120,000…art forces the viewer to consider something that everyone is telling you to look at. Mastromatteo’s candy wrapper is taped up to the wall in a similar fashion as Cattelan’s banana…if we look long enough at the tape, we’ll notice it’s resemblance to the “not-equal” sign...

Complex and masterfully thought out the composition of rifle, gun shells, target shapes, and buck shots. Most likely done for a ad or men's magazine. Signed lower right Atherton. Housed in a rustic House of Heydenryk frame...