Uki Otake

Mean girls - Surrealism Symbolism Dream unconscious experience painting

2016

“Entity” is part of “Recollecting Paradise” project, which has been under development since the beginning of 2021 and consists mainly of medium to large works that have at their core...

Developed in London in 2019 and 2020, this project focuses on the idea of dreaming and although the emerging compositions are closed and defined they are also very dynamic and vibran...

“Recollecting 4” has been under development since the beginning of 2021 and consists mainly of medium to large works that have at their core a search for the idea of paradise as a pl...

"Recollecting 9" is part of a series titled "Recollecting Paradise" started by the artist in early 2021. This work revolves around a female character that finds herself in a deep sta...

Ioana started "Irrational" in Milano (2016) and after a long thought-out process, it was finalized in Bucharest in late 2017. Conceptually, the project is a form of outsourcing contr...

Developed in London in 2019 and 2020, this project focuses on the idea of dreaming, and although the emerging compositions are closed and defined they are also very dynamic and vibra...

Inscribed, reverse: Fr Brina Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey. Francesco Brina was one of the “Studiolo” painters, responsible for the panel of Neptune and Amphitrite in F...

The panel has been attributed both to Joan de Joanes and his son Vicente Macip Comes (Valencia, ca. 1555 – 1623). Provenance: Private Collection, England, by 1886 (according to stencils on the reverse) Private Collection, New Jersey, until 2010 The Veil of Veronica, often called the Sudarium, is one of the most important and well-known relics of Christ. According to legend, Veronica offered Christ her veil as he carried the cross to his crucifixion. He wiped his face with the veil, which left the cloth miraculously imprinted with his image. Depictions of Christ’s face on a veil, or simply images that focused in on Christ’s face, were treasured objects of religious devotion. The popularity of this format also inspired similar images of the face of the Virgin. The iconographic type of the present painting is known as the Veronica of the Virgin, which was especially favored in late medieval and early Renaissance Spain. Distinct from the images of the suffering Christ, the Veronica of the Virgin is based on the legend that Saint Luke painted a portrait of Mary from life. Although scholars have sometimes mistaken them for portraits of Queen Isabella I of Castile (known as Isabel la Católica) or as a depiction of Saint Maria Toribia (known as María de la Cabeza, or, Mary of the Head), paintings like this one were clearly intended as images of the Virgin in the style of Saint Luke’s lost portrait. The Veronica of the Virgin was especially popular in Valencia, and depictions of this subject produced there all stem back to one visual prototype: a Byzantine image in the city’s cathedral (Fig. 1). This early treatment of the Veronica was given to the cathedral in 1437 by Martin the Humane, King of Aragon and Valencia, who promoted religious veneration of the Veronica of the Virgin as part of the celebration of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. This devotion spread throughout Martin’s kingdom and particularly took hold in Valencia, where the Byzantine image resided. The image, which is displayed in a gold reliquary...

Alchemy II by British artist Charlotte Aiken. Aiken is a Surrey-based artist, who responds to her surroundings through the medium of paint, working on ...

Painting oil on panel measuring 40 x 30 cm without frame and 48 x 38 with frame representing a great bishop of the Venetian school from the first half of the 18th century. Very curi...

A recent, large work by the masterful Giancarlo Impiglia, whose value has been steadily increasing. Born in Rome, Impiglia moved to New York in the 70s, where he established a signa...

One of America's most important realist painters, Eric Forstmann's work is proudly held in many public & private collections, such as the Rauschenberg Foundation, Aurelius Capital Ma...