Michel Boussy Furniture

The third series of photographs by fine Taxidermists Sinke & Van Tongeren After observing and analysing so many 17th century paintings, they were inspired to create a new series of work focused on still life masterpieces. They chose photography as the medium to portray their fine Taxidermy work interpreted through vanitas still lifes. The collection, ‘Les Peintures des Taxidermistes’, comprises eight works. Vanitas still lifes were enormously popular in the 17th century, often inspired by biblical themes and the saying that “All is vanity”. It reminded the viewer of his or her own mortality. For these series of still lifes Sinke & van Tongeren not only created meaningful scenes of taxidermy, they also mined their enormous collection of great finds to gather the most beautiful and unusual antiques to complement each scene. Title of this work; ’RÉUNION D’OISEAUX ÉTRANGERS’ Cabinets of curiosity were of monumental importance in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Assembling them with interesting and rare objects was a competitive hobby amongst the elite, and to collect a great number of mounted species from everywhere in the world was the Holy Grail of the day. For ‘Réunion d’oiseaux étrangers’, we created that Holy Grail again, but this time stocking our cabinet with seemingly live species. This plentiful composition is staged in a cabinet with different boxes holding rare species such as a Toco Toucan, Scarlet ibis, Cock of the Rock...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin...

Huile sur toile représentation de Jésus Christ d'époque XVIIème de dimension 54 cm par 42 cm.

Miçao Kono - "Woman with Cat" (1934) Type : Huile sur toile Signature : Signée et datée 1934 en bas à gauche et au dos de l’œuvre Encadrement : Exceptionnel cadre Art Déco en marqu...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

Alexander Michael Oil Painting – Still Life Geraniums, 1977 This vibrant still life captures a lush pot of red geraniums set on a stone pedestal in what appears to be a sunny conser...

"PONA"; Dan Christensen. 1977, USA. Acrylic and gesso on canvas. Signed, titled and dated on reverse "D. Christensen Pona, 1977".  

Jacqueline Brison (1932-2006), huile sur toile, circa 1960 Lack of paint.

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

Frambuesas Del Sur. Francisco Mery. Oil painting on linen. Francisco Mery is a Chilean artist born in 1961. He is a graphic designer and self-taught painter. According to the arti...

In 1968, Sheron Francis (American, b.1940) moved to NYC, birthplace a decade earlier of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Considered to be among the second generation of abstract ...

A fantastic, large, decorative painting by Robert Moskowitz, titled "The Family", circa 1977. It is signed and dated on the back. Robert Moskowitz (born 1935 in Brooklyn, New York) i...