Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

Gigi Mills
Circus with Camel and Balancing Poodle

2025

$750
£581.53
€659.85
CA$1,075.09
A$1,169.01
CHF 615.95
MX$14,200.08
NOK 7,743.79
SEK 7,259.18
DKK 4,951.62

About the Item

Gigi Mills' work is born out of her desire to simplify and reduce each moment to its essence; she achieves this by omitting mundane details from life that can often obscure genuine experience. She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family. It follows that both performance and plastic arts were admired and encouraged during her upbringing. In her early life, ballet and modern dance took up much of Gigi's focus and education. It was not until many years later that she began teaching herself to paint. Though she is influenced by several early and mid-twentieth century painters, she has developed a style that is distinctly her own. Gigi works in oil sometimes glazing to force the light to pass through many thin layers of paint. Sometimes disturbing the surface with scratches or removing bits of paint to expose the underpainting of layers so important to the backbone of a painting. Recent works on paper have become an exploration in texture, and both the ephemeral and sculptural nature of paper. These pieces have a refreshing immediacy having been worked quickly from a pile of oils, torn paper and crayons. No matter what her current technique, style or subject matter, it is always Mills' foremost intention to create work of extraordinary beauty with the ballast of emotional complexity. Working in series allows Gigi Mills to tell a larger story amongst a group of related paintings. The "Procession Series" seems to have subtly spawned from her personal history of being raised within the Mills Brothers' Circus. Burdened animals and clowns occupy a non-space en route to nowhere, and conjure a bittersweet quality. Elements from previous series and signature moments (such as the scroll of the fiddle head) are often intertwining, meeting each other at table amongst a repast of cake, or appearing in some other interior of collected chairs or a familiar chaise. Presented in Mills' paintings is a balancing act of grace, awkwardness and elegance It seems that within this work the extraordinary everyday is enlisted to play its role to the fullest. "Much of my work comes from memories. I have given myself license to reconstruct dreams, childhood and family memories, and the odd moment from my life. Bits and pieces... some enhanced by distance and imagination or deconstructed to their most elemental prose. A softening, a brightening and in some cases a warming where there was no warmth. In any case, it's perhaps not so important where they come from, but how they might affect another now. It is always my hope that there is a quality in my paintings that will out last, and certainly out shine whatever my original intention."
  • Creator:
    Gigi Mills (1960, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2025
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18.75 in (47.63 cm)Width: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    Edition of 20Price: $650
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1566216649052

More From This Seller

View All
Circus/Camel and Balancing Poodles
By Gigi Mills
Located in New York, NY
Giclée print on archival paper (Edition 3/20) Intricate, abstract print in shades of black and white. Gigi Mills work is born out of her need and desire to simplify and/or reduce each moment to its absolute essential, by removing details from life that tend to obscure what is truly being experienced. It is also her desire to bare witness to, and often to lift up in beauty what is so often considered unwanted or held in despair. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the well known Mills Brothers Circus family...
Category

2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

Les Chaises Musicales
Located in New York, NY
The basis of Beatriz's painted scenes is an exploration of the construction of reality. She represents this by analyzing all the things that are contained in a given space — and what...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Making Sense of It All II
Located in New York, NY
About the Artist: Claire Gilliam is an English photographer, printmaker, painter now based from her home and studio in Warwick, NY. In 1997, she graduated from Sheffield Hallam Unive...
Category

2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

Waking The Track/Orange Mane
By Gigi Mills
Located in New York, NY
Gigi Mills' work is born out of her desire to simplify and reduce each moment to its essence; she achieves this by omitting mundane details from life that can often obscure genuine e...
Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

Making Sense of It All I
Located in New York, NY
About the Artist: Claire Gilliam is an English photographer, printmaker, painter now based from her home and studio in Warwick, NY. In 1997, she graduated from Sheffield Hallam Unive...
Category

2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

An Interior Language IV
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: Gilliam began the series Life Lines in 2017 after recently coming into possession of MRI scans of her brain. The scans, which she spent hours pouring over, both fas...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint, Photographic Paper, Photogram

You May Also Like

CIRCUS Signed Lithograph, Big Top Tent, Animals, Trapeze Act, Acrobats, Clowns
Located in Union City, NJ
CIRCUS is a hand drawn original lithograph by the Argentine born woman artist Ivel Weihmüller printed using traditional hand printmaking techniques on archival paper 100% acid free. ...
Category

1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Circus and the Parade
By Antoni Clavé
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1949 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered II/XX Publisher : La Guilde de la Gravure (Paris-Genève) Catalog : Passeron, p.130 38.00 cm. x 56.00 cm. 14.96 in. x...
Category

1940s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Circus - Original Lithograph by Bruno Capacci - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Circus is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Bruno Capacci in Mid 20th Century. The state of preservation of the artwork is excellent. Not signed. Not N...
Category

1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Circus - Original Lithograph by Bruno Capacci - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Circus is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Bruno Capacci in Mid 20th Century. The state of preservation of the artwork is excellent. Not signed. Not N...
Category

1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Dog Circus Print
By Andrée Ruellan
Located in New York, NY
Color stencil print titled "Dog Circus" by Andrée Ruellan (1905-2006). New York, American Artists Group, Inc., circa 1936. Unsigned. Presented in an arc...
Category

1930s Animal Prints

Materials

Paper

Pablo Picasso, 12.3.59. II, from Bulls and Bullfighters, 1961 (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) originates from the rare 1961 album Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros (Bulls and Bullfighters). Published by Les Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris, under the direction of Charles Feld, and printed by Bosson et Auclair, Paris, during the second quarter of 1961, this edition presents a series of striking visual meditations on the bullfight—a subject that profoundly resonated with Picasso throughout his life. Created in collaboration with noted bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin, Toros y Toreros (Bulls and Bullfighters) unites text, photography, and Picasso’s dynamic graphic language to capture the rhythm, power, and ritual of the corrida. Executed on velin paper, this heliogravure measures 14.75 x 10.5 inches (37.47 x 26.67 cm). As issued, it is unsigned and unnumbered, consistent with the authorized 1961 publication format. This edition, realized under Charles Feld’s direction, preserves the expressive linework, tonal nuance, and kinetic immediacy of Picasso’s original drawings, exemplifying his masterful translation of motion and emotion into print. Artwork Details: Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Title: 12.3.59. II, from Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros (Bulls and Bullfighters), 1961 Medium: Heliogravure on velin paper Dimensions: Paper size 14.75 x 10.5 inches (37.47 x 26.67 cm) Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Date: 1961 Publisher: Les Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris Printer: Bosson et Auclair, Paris Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1961 album Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros (Bulls and Bullfighters), published by Les Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris Notes: Excerpted from the 1961 album (translated from French): "This album, edited by Charles Feld and realized under his direction, was completed printing during the second quarter, one thousand nine hundred sixty-one, with the collaboration for the illustrations, Imprimerie Moderne du Lion; for typographie, Imprimerie Union; for photogravure, Bosson et Auclair; for the binding, Barast et Adine; for the lithography, Fernand Mourlot. It was taken from this album CXXV examples numbered from I to CXXV and XXV out-of-commerce examples for the artist and his friends numbered from CXXV to CL. These examples are enriched with an original lithography, signed and a series of drawings drawn on Arches paper. In addition, the numbered examples of I to V have a lithography enhanced by the artist." About the Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist whose revolutionary vision redefined modern art in the 20th century. Born in Malaga, Spain, he demonstrated prodigious talent from an early age and trained in Barcelona and Madrid before moving to Paris, where he became the epicenter of avant-garde innovation. Picasso pioneered Cubism alongside Georges Braque, explored emotional depth through his Blue and Rose periods, and continually reinvented his style across thousands of works in painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking. His influence spans movements from Surrealism to abstraction, and his work remains central to global art history. The highest price ever paid for one of his artworks is approximately US $179.4 million for Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O) (Women of Algiers, Version O) (1955). Pablo Picasso heliogravure, Picasso Toros y Toreros (Bulls and Bullfighters), Picasso bullfight series, Picasso 1961 Cercle d'Art edition, Picasso Bosson et Auclair printer, Picasso Charles Feld editor, Picasso velin paper, Picasso corrida artwork, Picasso matador...
Category

1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph