Paul Kauver Smith Abstract Paintings

Artist: Chuck Close Title: Tavern Year of Work: 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed & Dated Upper Left Dimensions: framed 31 x 25 unframed 30 x 24 Provenance: Chuck Close, Marjorie Dalton (Dear friend of Chuck), Private Collection. Tavern, is truly a rare find, an original oil on canvas, in compelling blues and grays with a touch of gold and orange. This work reveals more imagery and detail the longer one enjoys it. This painting was created during his years studying in Yale Art School, and draws different qualities to each new viewer similar to a Rorschach. Close's work is in the collections of most of the great international museums of contemporary art, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City. and the Tate Modern in London. Artist Bio: Chuck Close – (1940-2021) an American painter, artist and photographer born in Monroe, Washington. Early childhood illnesses including a neuromuscular condition, nephritis and dyslexia were compounded later in life by a condition known as prosopagnosia (face blindness), which may have inspired him to do portraits. Most of his early, large-format portraits are based on photographs, using photorealism or hyperrealism, of family and friends, often other artists. Close often painted abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Even though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he continued to paint inspired by artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Close's first solo exhibition, held in 1967 at the University of Massachusetts Art Gallery, Amherst, featured paintings, painted reliefs, and drawings based on photographs of record covers. Being much in the mainstream of pop art, a fragment of Close's portrait of singer-songwriter Paul Simon...

A very good large 20th century Abstract Expressionist oil circa 1975. Stanley Smith (b. 1923) British. oil on board 61cmx 122cm. Gallery frame 65cmx 126c...

Women in Abstract Expressionism: Colorful Sunset Inspired Artwork by Texas artist Winter Rusiloski. Details: Winter Rusiloski Cathedral, 2016 Oil on canvas 48 x 45" View works. Wind...

Signed on the lower right side. It has the original strip frame from the Museum exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art 1983. Illustrated in the catalog, page 35 illustration #40 ...

Abstract female figure on a blue ground. Monogrammed and dated in the lower centre. Josef Steiner (1899 Munich - 1977 ibid.) lived through a Germany in all its facets as an artist. A...

Part of a new collection of painted porcelain panels by Chinese artist Yuan Lin, “Daydreams” is a luminous meditation on the sun's rays. In this painting, Lin...

Mindy Weisel Not Everything is Black and White , 2017 oil on canvas 91 x 91 cm 36 x 36 in Exhibited Mindy Weisel "Meditations on Love", Rosenbach Conte...

A rare departure from Daniel Phill's abstract expressionist botanical paintings titled "Pool". Interior scene of an indoor pool painted with his saturated ...

Binyamin Basteker The sounds of flowers , 2020 oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm 31 x 24 in Exhibited: "Jerusalem Flowers", 2020 Rosenbach Contemporary, Jerusalem Binyamin Basteker was bo...

Binyamin Basteker First rain in Jerusalem , 2018 oil on canvas 100 x 120 cm 39 x 47 in As a student of the masterful colorists of India and the Israeli abstract masters of the 1970s, Basteker has developed a unique style of painting. He loves color, he loves abstract and he loves the holy city...

Leap of Faith, Oonju Chun, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in. (unframed, gallery-wrapped canvas), $4,900 Oonju Chun’s large abstract expressionist paintings deligh...

Parallel Construction, oil on canvas, 48 x 54 in. Oonju Chun’s large abstract expressionist paintings delightfully employ the basics of good, nonobjective ...