Mark Beard Art

Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 24 x 12 inches This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New ...

Academic style figurative painting of a young athlete, wrestler in training "Wrestler in Training", Painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudonym i...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men on Beach n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 36 x 24 inches $4,250 + $250 framing This work is offered by ...

Untitled 1993 Signed and dated, l.r. Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper 30 x 18 inches $1,600 This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

Untitled 2019 Signed and dated Double-sided drawing in charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper 30.25 x 20.5 inches $1,600 This work is offered by CLAMP in Ne...

Untitled 2019 Signed and dated Two-sided drawing in charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper 30 x 20.5 inches $1,600 This work is offered by CLAMP in New York...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Boys on Bench n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 36 x 24 inches $4,250 + $250 framing This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Mysterious Ceremony n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches $3,250 + $125 framing This work is offere...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men with Horse n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches $3,600 + $150 framing This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men Kissing n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches $3,600 + $100 framing This work is offered b...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938) In the Locker Room n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 60 x 36 inches $8,000 + $750 framing This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Lederhosen in the Alps n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

Three Boys in Organza Jumpers 1960s/2022 Estate stamped and numbered on label, verso Digital C-print 31 x 31 inches, image (Edition of 15) $4,500 22 ...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man in Towel Looking to the Side n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm) $3,000 + $...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Boxer in Red Trunks n.d. Oil on canvas 30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm) $3,800 + $100 framing This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Single Rower n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 37.25 x 71.5 inches (94.6 x 181.6 cm) $8,500 + $800 framing This work is off...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] River Scene with Seven Rowers 1937 Signed in red, l.l. Oil on canvas 96 x 84 inches (243.8 x 213.4 cm) $18,000 + $1,000 framing This work is offered...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Three Bathers by the Water Signed in red, recto Oil on canvas 96.25 x 67 inches (244.5 x 170.2 cm) $15,000 + $900 framing This work is offered by Cla...

Academic style figurative oil painting on canvas 48 x 24 inches unframed 58 x 32 x 3 inches in gold leaf wood frame This vertical, contemporary figurative painting of Le Martyr de Saint Sebastian was made by Mark Beard under his fictitious artistic persona, Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon. Painted in a modern Academic style, Beard paints this Christian saint with dramatic detail and emotional gravity. The scene is a common artistic depiction of Sebastian who according to traditional belief, was killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian's persecution of the Christians. Here the artist depicts a nearly nude Saint Sebastian standing stoically while tied to a rustic brown post. A lush green forested terrain decorates the background while a white neo-classical building sits in the distance, which is perhaps the tomb where Saint Sebastian's remains were laid to rest. Saint Sebastian's pale blue-grey, stone-like stone tone is characteristic of Mark Beard's work who often portrays muscular young men similarly to Greek statues. The vertical Academic style figurative oil painting is complimented with a vintage style gold leaf wood frame. The painting is signed 'H. A. Michallon 1872' in red oil paint in the lower right corner. The gold frame is also signed and inscribed with black oil paint in several places (please see images). Mark Beard is a contemporary artist who made this work under the pseudonym Hippolyte A. Michallon who painted during the late 1800's so slight wear (see images) is intentionally staged to align with the factitious artist's purposed history. About the artist: Mark Beard is perhaps the most literal example of an artist pulled in so many different directions that he chose to “invent” six different personae in which to channel his overflowing energy and need for expression. Each painting style is radically different from the next, so it remains entirely believable that the work could stem from six completely different people of different time periods and different schools of thought. With a background in set design, Beard has always been one who could conjure total magic with anything available. Mark Beard has exhibited with Carrie Haddad Gallery for nearly twenty years and there has never been a dull moment. Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake city, now lives in New York City. His works are in museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton University Art Museums; among many others. We would not be the least bit surprised to see new ‘personas’ emerge in the coming years. About: Hippolyte - Alexandre Michallon, 1849 -1930 The long and peripatetic artistic career of Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon began in a conventional fashion. The only son of prosperous bourgeois parents in Tours, he first studied drawing with his mother, an accomplished amateur painter of insects. His father, an undertaker who appreciated his son's talent and supported his ambition to become a painter, sent him to Paris at age sixteen to enroll in the studio of Francois-Edouard Picot (1786-1868), an eminent history painter and professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, with whom he studied for three years, until Picot's death. Under his aging teacher's guidance and tutelage, Michallon entered the preliminary stages of the Prix de Rome contest at the Ecole three times, winning an Honorable Mention in 1869 for his composition entitled The Solider of the Marathon. For the next twenty years Michallon regualarly exhibited paintings on historical and biblical themes at the Paris Salon, as well as commissioned portraits. By his own account, the most ambitious work of Michallon's career was a thirty-foot canvas depicting Noah's Ark, which he exhibited in the Salon in 1875. Michallon began painting atmospheric but zoologically correct images of exotic animals in the wild. These achieved a certain popularity among French and foreign collectors alike, providing Michallon with financial security for the first time in his career. Michallon moved to England in 1893. His outstanding technical skills easily earned him a position on the faculty of the Slade School of Art in 1900. The craze for animal paintings proved short-lived. He continued to teach at Slade for the next two decades, but his classes gradually dwindled in size as the academic approach and methods he espoused went from outmoded to downright unpopular. Finally in 1922, finding himself reduced to a single pupil, the talented young American Bruce Sargeant, he retired from Slade, persuading Sargeant to leave with him and undergo private instruction at home. Several years later he retired to a cottage at St. Ives, Cornwall, where he lived quietly until his death in 1930, forgotten by all but a few former students, among them Edith Thayer Cromwell...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Tabletop Still Life n.d. Signed in red, u.l Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Flower Still Life n.d. Signed, l.r. Oil on canvas 18 x 17 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Oil on canvas with silver leaf, black painted wood frame with gold leaf Signed and dated in red, l.r. $6000.00 + $500.00 framing This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New...

[Edith Thayer Cromwell (1893-1962)] Elephant n.d. Signed, u.r. Oil on canvas 23 x 29 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York C...

Academic style figurative oil painting on canvas of a young man undressing in a rural camp setting with a mountain landscape in the distance "At the Camp", Painted by Mark Beard as ...

Academic, nautical style figurative oil painting of a handsome sailor against an ocean landscape "Sailor with Rope" painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudonym in homage to th...

Academic style figurative oil painting of a muscular male gondolier with Venice's St. Mark's Campanile in the background "Gondolier" painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudony...

Academic style figurative oil painting of a handsome football player against a country landscape 'Ready to Play', Painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudonym in homage to the...

Academic style figurative painting of four young athletes running and on bicycles "Frieze with Two Men on Bikes", painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudonym in homage to the fashion photographer, Bruce Weber, and figurative painter, John Singer Sargeant) Oil on canvas, signed upper right 35.5 x 60 inches, 40.5 x 65.5 inches in a black frame with wire backing Excellent condition, ready to hang as is This magnificent horizontal composition was painted by Mark Beard under his fictitious artistic persona, Bruce Sargeant. Painted in a modern Academic style, this dynamic portrayal of young, male athletes in motion is an exciting example of the artist's talent for painting human anatomy. Two men are mounted on bikes; one wears khaki shorts and a billowing, white oxford...

Academic style figurative painting of fiveyoung athletes running and on bicycles "Frieze with Five Athletes", painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudonym in homage to the fash...

Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Rowers II n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 38 x 83 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men Throwing, One Running n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 35.75 x 59 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New Yo...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Cyclists and One Runner n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 35.75 x 58 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man Reclining with Ski Equipment] n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 23 x 81.5 inches This wo...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Still Life with Spoons n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 17 x 13 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Three Athletes Running for the Ball n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 35.625 x 65 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in ...

Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 38 x 90 inches Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Nude Male with Towel n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 81.875 x 34.25 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Untitled (Standing Male Nude) 2017 Signed and dated, recto Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper 30 x 20 inches (76.2 x ...

graphite, conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper 30 x 22 inches, 37.5 x 26 inches framed Custom frame with Natural wood molding, white 8ply mat, AR non glare glass Signed BEARD 20...

Untitled (Two Standing Nudes) 2021 Signed and dated, recto Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper 30 x 20.5 inches (76.2 x 52.1 cm) $1,600 This work is offe...

Untitled (Standing Nude Sailor) 2018 Signed and dated, recto Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper 30 x 16.5 inches (76.2 x 41....

Polaroid transfer on Rives BFK paper Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (4/6) in pencil, recto Also blindstamped, l.r. 22 x 15 inches, sheet 10 x 8 inches, image This artwork is o...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Reclining Male in White Shorts n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 23.5 x 40.75 inches (59.7 x 103.5 cm) $4,750 + $475 framing...

Untitled (Two Men, Sitting and Standing) 2017 Signed and dated, l.r. Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper 30 x 21 inches (76.2 x 53.3 cm) $1,600 This work ...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Reclining Man in a Tie n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 23.25 x 36 inches (59.1 x 91.4 cm) $4,250 + $450 This work is offe...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Three Rowers, Gliding Across the Water n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 38 x 96 inches (96.5 x 243.8 cm) $10,250 + $900 Th...

Price includes cost of framing. This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Frieze with Five Tightly Grouped Athletes n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 36 x 66 inches (91.4 x 167.6 cm) $8,250 + $800 f...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Rowers, Early Morning Practice n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 38 x 82 inches (96.5 x 208.3 cm) $10,000 + $900 framing...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Frieze with Five Athletes n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 35.5 x 86 inches (90.2 x 218.4 cm) $9,500 + $850 framing This w...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Rowers Gliding Across the Water n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 38 x 82 inches (96.5 x 208.3 cm) $10,000 + $900 framin...

Academic style figurative oil painting on canvas of two men dressing in a ski lodge "Dressing in the Lodge," Painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudonym in homage to the fashion photographer, Bruce Weber, and figurative painter, John Singer Sargent) Made in the late 90's - early 2000's for Abercrombie and Fitch's flagship store in Milan, Italy Oil on canvas, signed upper left 82 x 34 inches unframed, 88 x 40 inches in black painted wood frame with wire backing Excellent condition, ready to hang as is This vertical, figurative painting of two men dressing in a ski lodge was painted by Mark Beard under his fictitious artistic persona, Bruce Sargeant. Painted in a modern Academic style, the handsome men are captured in winter attire set in an Alpine mountain landscape...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Frieze with One Runner Flanked by Two Bicyclists n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite 35.5 x 69 inches (90.2 x 175.3 cm) $8,250...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Christopher Posing with Leather Jacket in White Jockstrap n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas 24 x 12 inches $3,250 + $125 framing This work is o...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man from Below n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches $2800.00 + $125.00 framing Listed price includes cost of framing. This work is ...

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man With Open Shirt n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 24 x 12 inches $3,250 + $125 framing