Chief Star Road
By Joseph Fleck
Located in Denver, CO
"Chief Star Road" stands out for how clearly it showcases Joseph Amadeus Fleck’s strengths as a Western modernist with classical training. Fleck’s confident draftsmanship gives the p...
Canvas, Oil
Chief Samaro
By Joseph Fleck
Located in Denver, CO
"Chief Samaro" by Joseph Amadaeus Fleck is a compelling portrait that reflects the artist’s deep connection to the culture and people of the American Southwest. Rendered in warm, ear...
Canvas, Oil
$3,803
H 28.75 in W 36.23 in D 1.97 in
Incoherence of compulsory ways #1 - Hélène Duclos, Contemporary figurative paint
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas Signed lower right Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to be a living being? Who / what can we believe? Who / what can we trust? How real is our view of the world? And how is that perspective angled, and ultimately limited? These are the issues at the heart of my work as an artist. Painting, drawing, engraving and embroidery give me the freedom to approach my subjects from an ambivalent and flexible standpoint. I am building up a dynamic body of work, like pieces that you can put together in one way or another to shape different structures, pierced with numerous openings. And the title that I give each piece acts as a possible clue as to how to enter inside that system. I can portray both softness and monstrosities. I focus on the links and barriers lying between living beings and their surroundings, and evoke how permeable these connections are. My aim is not to create a visual documentary reporting fact, but rather immerse myself in observing everyday life, and in a host of images depicting real events (pictures, photos and videos). Instilled with these images, I can give a more personalized, unique and allegorical vision of the world around me. I am also interested in the key transition periods of human existence, those turning points that forge our identity within a family, a group, and society as a whole at the heart of a specific environment. I centre on what makes up and creates cohesion (rituals, myths and tales….), and indeed the opposite - what leads to life becoming shattered, hindered and frustrated (moving populations, exile and migration…) Amidst a landscape roaming with wild beasts and hybrid creatures, between love and separation, metaphors for our own desires and fears lie in hiding, or reveal themselves in the painted or embroidered spaces. Sometimes they are etched with lines, symbols and tiny architectural designs. These works might depict our inner landscapes, as if harking back to a primordial and cosmic point of origin. My most recent collections recreate the images of bodies or landscapes using abstract zones and figurative details that have no direct link with either anatomy or geography. Intimacy and the unspeakable are themes that run throughout my work, and I make sure to incorporate areas of both visual tension and relief, so as to give the viewer the space to project him or herself into the work. And here, such paradoxes can only be reached through the interplay between abstraction and figuration.” 2 / Thierry Delcourt Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author of works on the process of artistic creation, and the conditions of existential and social creativity : "Entering into the world of Hélène Duclos in her drawings, paintings, embroidery and words means letting yourself be carried away by a torrent towards strange shores of creation where only a few artists have ever dared to venture. As if perched on a watchtower on the threshold of different worlds, Hélène Duclos throws us out of our depth, plunging us into spaces filled with destitute mankind, and guiding us through her stem-like maze of a scheme, bristling with roots and clues. But the mystery here, like a poetic, human rebus that never ends, only compels us to take a closer look.” 3 / Hélène Duclos ‘s biography : After graduating from the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris with a degree in textile design, I set off on a six-month sea voyage from Vannes in Brittany, to Dakar. On returning to France, I set up my atelier...
Canvas, Oil
$27,286
H 39.38 in W 51.19 in D 2.37 in
Swimmers I, Maria Filopoulou, Greek, Water, Natural World, Expansive, Lagoon
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Water & Light are two main components that make the Greek landscape unique and irresistible. Greek painter Maria Filopoulou takes up these two clichés unashamedly and transforms thei...
Oil, Canvas
$5,973
H 67.33 in W 53.55 in D 2.37 in
Italian Oil on Canvas Painting Coat of Arms in Gold Leaves Panel and Black Frame
Located in Firenze, IT
This huge Italian 19th century armorial painting features the coat of arms of Montini, a noble Italian family that has among its ancestors the Archbishop of Milan, later known as Pope Paul VI. The large oval canvas has a brown and red background, the latter shaped like a shield, in which six mountains (from the etymology of the surname) and three white fleur de lis are painted. This big scale palatial oil painting...
Oil, Canvas, Wood
$9,557
H 22.84 in W 19.69 in D 3.15 in
Aeneas Fleeing the Burning of Troy, 17th Century Flemish Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Firenze, IT
This oil painting on canvas, created by an artist from the 17th Century Flemish School, depicts one of the most significant scenes from Greco-Roman mythology: Aeneas saving his famil...
Canvas, Oil
$5,823
H 51.19 in W 38.19 in D 1.97 in
Cosmic pulse III- Hélène Duclos, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas Signed Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to be a living being? Who /...
Canvas, Oil
$3,209
H 18.12 in W 21.66 in D 1.97 in
Change of paradigm #1 - Hélène Duclos, Contemporary figurative painting
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas Signed Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is i...
Canvas, Oil
$5,348
H 57.49 in W 44.89 in D 1.97 in
Supper is not over ! - Julien Wolf, Contemporary Expressionist Painting
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas 2019 Signed Unique work Julien Wolf is a French painter who was born in Strasbourg in 1981, France. In 2007, he graduated and obtained the DNSEP Art and Decorative Art section...
Canvas, Oil
$2,986
H 21.66 in W 18.12 in D 1.97 in
Orientation perspectives #1 Hélène Duclos, 21st Century Contemporary figurative
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas Signed Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is i...
Canvas, Oil
$11,290
H 63 in W 86.62 in D 1.97 in
Parnassus madness-Julien Wolf, 21st Century, Contemporary Expressionist Painting
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas 2018 Signed Unique work Julien Wolf is a French painter born in 1981 in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he graduated from the DNSEP Art section at the Strasbourg Decora...
Canvas, Oil
A Daughter of the South
By Frank Schoonover
Located in Greenville, DE
Number 382 in the Schoonover raisonné. Signed and dated 1909. Beautifully reframed in custom 23 karat gold leaf frame.
Canvas, Oil
$4,635
H 57.09 in W 43.31 in D 1.97 in
A small picodon ? Julien Wolf Contemporary Expressionist Painting
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas 2017 Signed Unique work Julien Wolf is a French painter born in 1981 in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he graduated from the DNSEP Art section at the Strasbourg Decora...
Canvas, Oil
$3,803
H 28.75 in W 36.23 in D 1.97 in
Imperceptible change #3 - Hélène Duclos, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas Signed Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to be a living being? Who /...
Canvas, Oil
Pueblo
By Joseph Fleck
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Amadeus Fleck ( 1892-1977). Pueblo, c.1940's. Oil on canvas measures 22 x 28 inches; 30 x 36 inches in a carved Hydenryk frame. A few very minor surface scratches. The piece has never been cleaned and has very minor surface dirt. Signed lower right. No damage or restoration. Born in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Joseph Flecks artistic talents were fired in Fin de siecle Vienna - the crucible of Expressionism - alongside Klimt and Kokoschka. After a stint in the army, where he served as regimental artist, Fleck emigrated to the United States in 1922. He found work in Missouri at the Tiffany Glass Studios, but settled eventually in Taos, where he became a fixture in the second wave after the Founders. The chromatic geometry of Pueblo creates a rhythm of horizontals, verticals and diagonals. What pulls the work together is the subtlety of the tight curls of smoke from the chimneys, contained in the picture plane by the river that runs between the peaks, obscuring the tree-covered slope at right as if with a layer of mist. Joseph Amadeus Fleck, born of German speaking parents in the village of Sziklos, Austria-Hungary on August 25, 1892, saw the American Southwest through Viennese eyes. He received his first education in the arts at the Kunstgewerbeschule or Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna, which he entered in 1908. There he studied lithography, etching, and ornamental engraving, receiving a diploma around 1911. Shortly thereafter he entered Vienna's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Hans Tichi, and Rudolf Bacher, two members of the Austrian Succession group. Other members of this movement, founded in 1897 to break away from more traditional styles of painting, were Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oscar Kokoschka. Pre-war Vienna, the hub of a vast multi-racial, multi-cultural Empire, was the original source of Fleck's artistic vision. But an epoch ended with the shots fired at Sarajevo. In 1915, Fleck was called into the army, as were many of his Academy classmates. Shortly thereafter he arrived on the Italian front. His artistic talents were soon discovered by officers of his regiment, and he became recognized as the unofficial regimental artist. In 1916 he returned to Vienna as a lieutenant to spend the remaining war years painting war heroes and important government figures. He completed his training at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1919. In 1922, he emigrated to the United States, arriving in Kansas City, Missouri. He began working at a stained-glass factory owned by Tiffany and Co, rising to the position of chief designer. His solid training in portraiture soon enabled him to receive many portrait commissions. Among the most notable of these were the portrait of Confederate General George Franklin Paxton, now hanging in the Museum of the Virginia Historical Society; and the portrait of Mayor Albert I. Beech of Kansas City. Both were painted in 1924. In early 1924, Fleck visited an exhibition of paintings by members of the Taos Society of Artists in a Kansas City Art Gallery. His curiosity aroused, he visited Taos in the summer of 1924. In 1925, he married Mable Davidson Mantz and returned to Taos to become a permanent resident. With the exception of extended painting trips to Europe in 1926 and 1930-1931 and three years as Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, he remained a resident of Taos until 1973. He died in Pleasanton, California in 1977. Among his prizes and honors were the bronze medal of the Kansas City Art Institute, 1923, the silver medal of the Kansas City Art Institute, 1929, the Morris Rosenwald prize of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927. He was also a contributor to juried national and international exhibitions sponsored by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Foundation, the Corcoran Gallery, the National Academy of Design, the Toledo Museum, and the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco in 1939. One-man shows included the Houston Museum, 1930; Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, 1931; and the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, 1944. Fleck was a member of the Artist's Equity Association and the Chicago Galleries Association. He served as president of the Taos Artist's Association from 1947 to 1949. Fleck's early Taos paintings...
Canvas, Oil