Fran Bull

Three Egrets, Fran Bull

1980

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Flamingos Year: 1981 Edition: 178/200, plus proofs. Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 33.5 x 41 inches Condition: Good Inscription: S...

Artist: Jiang Tie-Feng (1938) Title: Morning with Crane Year: 2001 Medium: Silkscreen on Vellum Rag paper Edition: 227/293, plus proofs Size: 31 x 31 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Signed and numbered by the artist. JIANG TIE-FENG (1938- ) Chinese Artist Jiang Tiefeng's colors are of unsurpassed richness. Jiang's use of imagery in his paintings are steeped in Buddhist and Chinese mythology. Each figure has a symbolic meaning, and his works have so much complexity and visual fascination that the viewer is constantly seeing something new. Jiang's deep love of the colorful earth and for Xishuangbanna, a region of the Yunnan Province, has encouraged him to explore and create mysterious and unique subjects to paint. The secret and essence of Jiang Tiefeng's work is best expressed by the artist himself as he describes his paintings not only as pictures, but they are also music and poetry...

Artist: Jiang Tie-Feng (1938) Title: Rhythm Year: 1992 Medium: Silkscreen on Vellum Rag paper Edition: 80/300, plus proofs Size: 32.75 x 39.5 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Signed and numbered by the artist. JIANG TIE-FENG (1938- ) Chinese Artist Jiang Tiefeng's colors are of unsurpassed richness. Jiang's use of imagery in his paintings are steeped in Buddhist and Chinese mythology. Each figure has a symbolic meaning, and his works have so much complexity and visual fascination that the viewer is constantly seeing something new. Jiang's deep love of the colorful earth and for Xishuangbanna, a region of the Yunnan Province, has encouraged him to explore and create mysterious and unique subjects to paint. The secret and essence of Jiang Tiefeng's work is best expressed by the artist himself as he describes his paintings not only as pictures, but they are also music and poetry...

Artist: Marisol Escobar (1930) Title: Blackbird Love Year: 1980 Edition: 34/150, plus proofs. Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Size: 30.25 x 22.5 inches Condition: Good Inscription...

Robert Greenhalf Great White Egrets Limited Edition Print Woodcut on Paper Edition of 100 Paper Size: H 48.5cm x W25.5 cm Image Size: H38.5cm x 16.5cm...

David Lee, Chinese (1944 - ) - White Herons, Year: circa 1985, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 100, Size: 21 x 29 in. (53.34 x 73.66 cm), Descriptio...

Rudolf Hayder (active in the 1st half of the 20th century), Heron. Color woodcut on thin Japanese paper, 24 x 29 cm (image), 29 x 36 cm (sheet size), signed by hand at lower right "R. Hayder" and titled by hand as "Reiher". Lower left inscribed by hand "Orig.[inal] woodcut, hand print". - A little bit stained in the margins and very occasionally in the image, minimal hole above the signature, traces of creasing. At the back side's margins with remnants of an old mounting. About the artwork In the context of French Japonism, the color woodblock print, which was widespread in the Asian region, was rediscovered for Western art. The artists of the time, such as Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, were inspired not only by the cultural influence, but also by the two-dimensionality of the pictorial spaces. Thus, color woodcuts became an important moment in the development of the modern pictorial concept founded by Impressionism. In Rudolf Hayder's "Herons", too, the two-dimensionality of the pictorial space is decisive for the pictorial effect. The herons, surrounded by reeds, are framed by the yellow background of the lake, followed by the dark blue-greenish stripe of the opposite shore and, above it, the sky in a lighter blue-green. Formally, it is a sequence of planes, but the two-dimensionality of the motif creates a spatial effect. This spatiality in the surface creates an intense pictorial effect. Hayder intensifies this effect with the blazing lake. In terms of color, the water becomes a sunset. The yellow turns reddish brown toward the shore, then fades to brownish red, while the shore is a watery turquoise...

David Ackerson (b. 1950, American) Title: "Big Tex & His Three Egrets" Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 40 x 30 in. Markings: Signed LM "David Ackerson"...