Thomas J. Cibort

Monaco, 11 et 13 Avril 1936

2005

Artist: Felix Angel – Colombian/American (1949- ) Title: Untitled - Equestrian Year: 1985 Medium: acrylic on canvas Size: 44 x 56 inches Signature: Signed...

Artist: Felix Angel – Colombian/American (1949- ) Title: Untitled – Ciclistas or Cyclists Year: 1985 Medium: acrylic on canvas Size: 54 x 70 inches Signat...

This painting with added elements is an excellent example of Joe Doyle’s abstract illusionist art. It is composed of acrylic on shaped canvas with fabric elements added. It measures 36 x 43 inches. Each edge has been painted except for the left edge which has a frame. The right edge has been shaped. The black elements of the tent-like structure are added fabric. The work is signed, titled "564" and dated on the reverse. As well it bears a label from Harcourts Gallery, a gallery in San Francisco during the 1980s and 1990s. The work is in very good condition. Joe Doyle established himself as a painter during the movement toward new abstraction in San Francisco in the mid-seventies. Stylistically his work evolved from photo-realist renderings of aircraft which exaggerated differences in focus of background and foreground" By 1975 his imagery shifted to arrangements of flat, geometric forms and tubular squiggles in a trompe l'oeil manner that created the illusion of a multi-layered, three dimensional space. By the late 1970s Doyle, along with James Havard, Jack Reilly, George D. Green, and others, had attained national prominence working this style now referred to as Abstract Illusionism. Doyle and others were included in 'Reality of Illusion' a large touring exhibition of primarily American illusionist artists organized by the University of Southern California and The Denver Art Museum. Doyle enrolled at San Francisco State College receiving his M.A. in 1971. From 1971 to 1975 he was a photo-realist transferring images from photographs using airbrush techniques on canvas, occasionally adding political satire into the subject matter, as in "Ice House...

Artist: Suzanna Hart-Broughton – American (ca.1935-) Title: Crimson Labyrinth Year: 1983 Medium: Oil and/or acrylic and collage on canvas Sight size: 30 x 36 inches. Framed size: 30.25 x 36.25 inches Signature: Signed lower right, reverse Condition: Very good Frame: Framed in original frame This painting is composed of oil/and or acrylic paint with collage on canvas. The painting's collage elements have a strong symbolic/mythological reference in keeping with Hart-Broughton's extensive study of Carl Jung...