Dan May

Devil at Cocktail Hour /// Funny Contemporary Monoprint Bar Romantic Alcohol Art

2003

Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Dancing (Orange and Blue)" *Signed by May in pencil lower left Year: 1978 Medium: Original Monoprint on unbra...

Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Energizer Bunny's Birthday" *Signed by May in pencil lower left Year: 1996 Medium: Original Monoprint on unbranded heavy white wove paper Li...

Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Running the Dog" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1984 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white wove paper Limited edition: 151/175 Printer: the artist May himself, Oakland, CA Publisher: the artist May himself, Oakland, CA Sheet size: 21" x 21" Image size: 12.88" x 15.13" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Titled and dated by May in pencil lower right. Biography: Dan May is an American painter and printmaker born on March 11, 1955 in San Francisco, CA. Raised in aesthetic surroundings heavily influenced by his architect father, May grew up learning to view all things with an eye for design, color, and shape. At age 5, he remembers his father cutting up a book of drawings by Henri Matisse and hanging them on the walls of their home. The French master Matisse as well as Richard Diebenkorn and David Hockney are his favorite art influences. He began his first attempts at painting at age 15, and later began to experiment with printmaking, teaching himself various techniques such as woodblock printing, etching, silkscreen printing, and monoprinting. Monoprinting soon became May's medium of choice due to its wide range of expression and spontaneity that he felt other techniques lacked. May - "With monoprinting, you can only work a piece for as a long as the paint stays wet, so the resulting print has a feeling of movement and immediacy. I also like how monoprinting allows the brush strokes to transfer a transparent light quality to the print. For me, this is a technique that bridges...

Artist: Janusz De Rola (Polish, 1906-1991) Title: "Un Soir a Paris" *Signed by De Rola in pencil lower right Year: 1990 Medium: Original Lithograph on Rives BFK paper Limited edition: 31/125 Printer: Unknown Publisher: Vision Nouvelle, Paris, France Sheet size: 30" x 22" Image size: 25.5" x 19" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In mint condition Extremely rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Paris, France. Rives BFK watermark lower right. Biography: Janusz de Rola (1906-1991) was born in Poland to a family of the princely nobility. His father is friends with the Emperor of Austria-Hungary the famous Franz Joseph. Having studied at Vienna (Austria), he entered the diplomatic service as vice-consul of Poland in Sicily and is pursuing a cultural and diplomatic career until 1939. A volunteer in 1939 in the Polish forces fighting alongside the French troops, the hazards of war led him to Nice. He will live there after the armistice, to meet with his wife. Then he will live in Vienna in the 1960s (Salesianer Gasse 7), then in the Var, Pignans (the field of Cressonniere from 1971) and finally in Gonfaron from 1981 until his death in 1991. He holds a "Nansen Passport", he will remain stateless after the war. Between 1940 and 1950 he was a pupil of the painter Sylvain Vigny. He joins a group where Picasso whose face he meets. Since the fifties of Janusz ROLA imposes his figurative painting, including his famous "elegant" works acquired by larger collections. In the early 1970s he met the painter Roger Boubenec who became his friend and who said of him: "He was the man of Europe. Painter, poet, musician To him I owe the visual sense the composition ". Janusz from ROLA received the title of Artist of the Year 1986 awarded by the largest German magazine in the cultural field, "Madame". In 1987 the South Art magazine wrote an article in the first issue. Salvatore Lombardo, founder of the magazine, will honor him in a small book published in 1991. official portraitist of the Saudi royal family has also produced portraits of Sophia Loren...

Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Reading a Book" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1982 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white wove paper Limit...

Artist: Louis Toffoli (Italian-French, 1907-1999) Title: "Le Mexicain (Le Gilet Jaune) The Mexican (The Yellow Vest)" *Signed by Toffoli in pencil lower right Year: 1990 Medium: Orig...

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