Aubrey Williams, Guyanese artist. Williams has recently been reassessed by the Tate and Manchester Art Galleries and been the subject of television documentaries. He was best known for his large, oil-on-canvas paintings, which combine elements of abstract expressionism with forms, images and symbols inspired by the pre-Columbian art of indigenous peoples of the Americas. Born in Georgetown in British Guiana (now Guyana), Williams began drawing and painting at an early age. He received informal art tutoring from the age of three and joined the Working Peoples' Art Class at the age of 12. After training as an agronomist, he worked as an Agricultural Field Officer for eight years, initially on the sugar plantations of the East Coast and later in the North-West region of the country - an area inhabited primarily by the indigenous Warao people. His time among the Warao had a dramatic impact on his artistic approach and initiated the complex obsession with pre-Columbian arts and cultures that ran throughout his artistic career. Shortly after he qualified as an Agricultural Officer, Williams contacted E. R. Burrowes and returned to the Working People's Art Class, but this time as a teacher and organizer. Together they extended the WPAC beyond central Georgetown by setting up auxiliary classes throughout the East Coast. Williams himself established new classes in the agricultural regions in which he was working, and would often lead classes when Burrowes was unavailable. The classes were held at least twice weekly. Williams left Guyana at the height of the Independence Movement in 1952 and moved to the United Kingdom. Following his first exhibition in London in 1954, he became an increasingly significant figure in the post-war British avant-garde art scene, particularly through his association with Denis Bowen's New Vision Centre Gallery. In 1966, he came together with a group of London-based Caribbean artists and intellectuals to found the Caribbean Artists Movement, which served as a dynamic hub of cultural events and activity until its dissolution in 1972. From 1970 onward, Williams worked in studios in Jamaica and Florida as well as the UK. It was during this period that he produced three of his most well-known series of paintings, Shostakovich, The Olmec Maya and Now and Cosmos. In 1989, paintings by Williams were included in an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery entitled The Other Story, which focused on the work of African and Asian artists in post-World War II Britain. This was the first time that his work was exhibited in a mainstream public art gallery in the UK. and featured his Cosmos series. In the words of Geoffrey MacLean, "It showed the vast span of Williams's spiritual and intellectual development, from the birds of Guyana and the environment of his childhood, through the memory of his Amerindian heritage, culminating in an appreciation of universal expression through music and spiritual realization through the cosmos." Williams died in London on 17 April 1990, aged 63.
$6,509Sale Price|20% Off
Pelican 1974 - Expressionist animal art watercolour/gouache bird painting
By Aubrey Williams
Located in Hagley, England
This beautiful large vibrant animal painting is by Aubrey Williams, Guyanese artist. It is a watercolour/gouache painting of a magnificent Pelican and painted in 1974. Williams has r...
Watercolor
$4,285Sale Price|20% Off
House Crows 1976 - Expressionist animal art watercolour bird painting
By Aubrey Williams
Located in Hagley, England
This beautiful animal painting is by Aubrey Williams, Guyanese artist. It is a watercolour painting of House Crows and painted in 1976. Williams has recentl...
Watercolor
$3,500
“Blue Macaw, 1975” by Aubrey Williams, Guyanese Tropical Bird Gouache Signed
By Aubrey Williams
Located in Yardley, PA
This striking gouache captures Williams’s lifelong fascination with the natural world, filtered through his expressive modernist sensibility. The bird emerges from a hazy gray field,...
Paper, Gouache
$4,285Sale Price|20% Off
Ural Owl 1975 - Expressionist art animal watercolour gouache bird painting
By Aubrey Williams
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning vibrant animal painting is by Aubrey Williams, Guyanese artist. It is a watercolour/gouache painting of an Ural Owl and painted in 1975. Williams has recently been reas...
Watercolor
$25,000
Exceptional 20th century abstract oil painting by Aubrey Williams, 'Demerara'
By Aubrey Williams
Located in Colfax, CA
Exceptional 20th century abstract oil and mixed media on stretched canvas by Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams. Aubrey Williams, (1926-1990), was a Guyanese artist who spent most of hi...
Canvas, Mixed Media
$2,458
H 32.09 in W 32.09 in D 1.38 in
#ihavethisthingwithflowers by Julia Adams is a contemporary mixed media Art
By Julia Adams
Located in Deddington, GB
Julia Adams #ihavethisthingwithflowers Original Interior Painting Mixed Media on Canvas Canvas Size: H 80cm x W 80cm Framed Size: H 81.5cm x W 81.5cm x D 3.5cm Sold Framed in a White...
Canvas, Paint, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
$27,200Sale Price|20% Off
H 19.62 in W 14.75 in
Art Deco Horses and Nude Figures, Gouache on Paper, Framed, 1930s
By Bela Kadar
Located in Miami, FL
This work is an exceptional example of Kádár's mature Cubist style. It's effortlessly designed around a complex composition of nude men and women tending to horses in a surreal landscape with Greek columns, friezes and marshmello clouds set against a rich blue saturated sky. Kádár was a Hungarian painter influenced by Der Blaue Reiter...
Paper, Gouache
$2,691
H 15.16 in W 23.04 in D 1.19 in
Crymlyn Bog & Neath River Estuary Swansea Bay Framed Welsh Landscape Watercolor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Cornelius Pearson b.1805 – d.1891 & Thomas Francis Wainewright, b.1794 – d.1883 English Crymlyn Bog And Neath River Estuary Swansea Bay, 1872 Watercolor. Signed & Dated 1872. Image size 7.9 inches x 15.9 inches ( 20cm x 40.5cm ). Frame size 15.2 inches x 23 inches ( 38.5cm x 58.5cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by Cornelius Pearson with a significant contribution by Thomas Francis Wainewright, and is dated 1872. The watercolor is presented and supplied in a sympathetic pinned corner frame dating from the 1950s or 1960s (which is shown in these photographs), mounted and behind glass. This antique painting is in very good condition whilst the frame is in a good condition, commensurate with age. It is ready to hang and display. The watercolor is signed by both artists and dated 1872 lower left. The mount is titled and attributed by hand. Cornelius Pearson was an accomplished landscape artist. He was born in Boston, Lincolnshire but moved at an early age to London where he became apprenticed to a copper-plate engraver. He soon abandoned engraving however to devote himself to being a watercolor painter. Although he lived in London throughout his career, he travelled for his work to paint in Kent, Ireland, Wales, the Lake District, Scotland, on the Thames and Devon. He was a regular exhibitor at the Suffolk Street Galleries, and also exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New Watercolor Society and elsewhere. He was one of the oldest members of the Langham...
Paper, Watercolor
$1,125
H 24 in W 36 in
Those Curves - Impasto Thick Paint Layered Texture Colorful Abstract Painting
By Shiri Phillips
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Canvas, Acrylic, Glitter, Mixed Media
$1,050Sale Price|25% Off
H 24 in W 24 in D 2 in
Life with Beagle Figurative Art Animal Painting 24" x 24" Women in Art
By Jeanie Tomanek
Located in Houston, TX
Jeanie Tomanek: I don’t intentionally set out to make a calming painting, no, but I do try to have a sense of hope in my stories. I’m an optimist who believes there’s always some way...
Oil, Cotton Canvas
$278
H 14 in W 11 in
Dancing - Colorful Thick Textured Raised Impasto Original Colorful Painting
By Shiri Phillips
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Canvas, Glitter, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Indian Mughal Emperor on Horseback Gouache
Located in Astoria, NY
Indian School, Mughal Emperor on Horseback being Exalted by a Subject, Gouache on Paper, unframed. Sheet: 12.75" H x 10.25" W. Provenance: From a Chelsea Townhouse.
Paper, Gouache
$10,835
H 47.25 in W 47.25 in D 1.58 in
Copper Quasar-original mixed media geometric abstract painting-contemporary Art
By Antoinette Ferwerda
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Canvas, Mixed Media
$278
H 14 in W 11 in
Peach and Blue - Thick Textured Raised Impasto Colorful Layers Original Painting
By Shiri Phillips
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Canvas, Glitter, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$14,000
H 11 in W 10 in
Godzilla like Dinosaur Monster, SciFi, Science Fiction Cover Illustration
By Paul Wenzel
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Godzilla-like monster illustration from 1961. Wenzel was a prolific Disney Artist for decades. The work is beautifully matted and framed and looks better in person. Sign...
Mixed Media, Gouache, Tempera, Illustration Board
Sold|$4,300
H 48 in W 60 in D 2 in
Warm Floral Abstract Painting, Amber Ochre Botanical Canvas Art
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Ambered Blooms” is a richly layered abstract inspired by florals, rendered in a warm palette of amber, ochre, soft blush, and earthy neutrals. Rather than a literal botanical, the c...
Canvas, Mixed Media
$7,596
H 51.19 in W 51.19 in D 1.38 in
Virgen - 21st Century, Contemporary, Collage, Colourful
By Fernando Alday
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Collage on canvas “From an early age, I was known as the “searcher”. I was attracted to the spiritual side of life, its abstract qualities. My father, a dentist and antique dealer, ...
Canvas, Mixed Media