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"Comedians at the Airport, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Comedians at the Airport" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It depicts two abstracted figures over a fi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Rainy Day, " Abstract Oil Pastel Drawing on Pink Paper by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Rainy Day" is an original oil pastel drawing on pink paper by Reginald K. Gee. This piece features abstract marks in red, blue, orange, white, yellow, and black on pink.
12" x 18" ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"The Word Came Down On Us, " Original Watercolor signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Word Came Down On Us" is an original watercolor painting on paper by Reginald K. Gee. It depicts a fall landscape. The artist signed the piece in the lower left.
11" x 15" art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Double Tone, " Pastel on Paper Portrait signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Double Tone" is a pastel on paper signed by Reginald K Gee. This portrait is of a bald man in a dark room. He is an ashy blue color, whereas the background is warm yellow, red, and ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
'Mystic, Awkward, Prepare the Wax, Free Will' original signed acrylic polyptich
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work is an excellent example of the paintings of Milwaukee artist Reginald K. Gee. Each of the four canvases that make up the work bear one of Gee's humorous, poetic titl...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Painting Style of 814 BC, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Painting Style of 814 BC" is an original oil pastel on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. Painting Style of 814 BC, of 1999, is one of Gee’s ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"As I Waste Time on Earth, " Oil Pastel Abstract Landscape by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"As I Waste Time on Earth" is an original oil pastel drawing on rag board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed it on the back. This piece depictts two faces in the lower left, two f...
Category
1990s Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board, Rag Paper
"Brunch Break, " Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Brunch Break" is an original oil pastel drawing on rag board by Reginald K. Gee. This piece is an abstract amalgamation of many different colors and markmaking techniques.
40" x 3...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Rag Paper
"Person Vs. Plant Vs. Abstract Canvas on Blased Wall, " by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Person Vs. Plant Vs. Abstract Canvas on Blased Wall" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This piece featu...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Oblivion Road, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Oblivion Road" is an original oil pastel drawing on grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left and dated it. It features a figure on a motorcycle on a ra...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"The Sound of Color, " Oil Pastel on Illustration Board by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Sound of Color" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist initialed the piece lower right. This piece features an abstract figure in...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"The Three Dollar Bill Network, " Oil Pastel on Cardboard signed by Reginald Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Three Dollar Bill Network" is an original oil pastel drawing mounted to cardboard by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts abstract marks, small figures, and scenes separated by lines and space.
30" x 40" art
Reginald K. Gee was born in Milwaukee on April 28, 1964 to Native American and African American parents and spent most of his childhood on the northwest side of Milwaukee in the Havenwoods neighborhood. Gee has been creating art since 1982, and his professional art debut began in 1986 at an outdoor exhibition at Milwaukee’s Performing Arts Center. Like Prophet William J. Blackmon and Simon Sparrow...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Cardboard
"I Don't Know Either, " Oil Pastel on Canvas Board Abstract by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"I Don't Know Either" is an original oil pastel drawing on canvas board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. It depicts multiple abstracted faces.
40...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Board
"Not Intended For Office Viewing Series Section F" Oil Pastel by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Not Intended For Office Viewing Series, Section F" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece fe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"This Way, " Abstract Acrylic on Board signed on Verso by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"This Way" is an acrylic on museum board signed on verso by Reginald K. Gee. This abstract landscape is a mixture of green, orange, and blue. Near the right is a blue house overgrown...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"Epoxy Glued Ming Dynasty, " Original Clay Sculpture signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Epoxy Glued Ming Dynasty" is an original acrylic-painted clay sculpture by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the bottom. This sculpture depicts two Asian men without a...
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Wood, Acrylic
"The Light from Beneath, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Light from Beneath" is an original oil pastel on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece features multiple simplified figures in a d...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Techniques of Meditation, " Oil Pastel Landscape signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Techniques of Meditation" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. It depicts a variety of abstracted figures in brightly-colored landscapes. The ...
Category
1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Seated Figure in Studio, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Seated Figure in Studio" is an original oil pastel drawing on a Safeway grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. It features an abstracted figure seat...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Wherre Is She, " Oil Pastel Portrait on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Where Is She" is an oil pastel on grocery bag signed by Reginald K. Gee. A downcast man sits at a small circular table. The whole scene is blue, and the man fiddles with his sunglas...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
"Dance Studio, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dance Studio" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right as well as signing and dating it on the back. It depicts...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Vacation in a Cabin, " Oil Pastel by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Vacation in a Cabin" is an original oil pastel drawing by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. In Vacation in a Cabin, 1989, Gee presents a complex and wildly c...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
"Space Sense, " Multi-scene Oil Pastel on Illustration Board by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Space Sense" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features three distinct scenes--a green rainy scene with two figure...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Untitled, " Abstract Acrylic Portrait on Canvas Panel signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Untitled" is an original acrylic painting on canvas panel by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This artwork features an abstract portrait of a man in blue, b...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
"Sister Vali, " Pastel on Grocery Bag on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sister Vali" is an original pastel drawing on grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It depicts a woman playing piano with her eyes closed in front...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Found Objects
"Man In Green Shirt, " Acrylic & Pastel on Paper signed by Reginald K Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Man In Green Shirt" is an acrylic and pastel on paper signed by Reginald K Gee. A male figure is set against a colorful, expressionistic background.
Art: 12 x 9 in
Reginald K. Ge...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
"White & Blue Flowers on Dark Green Background, " Acrylic signed by Reginald Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"White & Blue Flowers on Dark Green Background" is an original acrylic painting by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed and dated the piece in the lower right corner. It depicts a bouq...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Faraway from Familiar Sounds, " Oil Pastel Drawing signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Faraway From Familiar Sounds" is an original oil pastel drawing on ragboard by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts a number of abstracted figures se...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
"The Mainvjine of Farsplintoc, " Abstract Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Mainvjine of Farsplintoc" is an original oil pastel drawing on paper by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This piece features a variety of abstract marks...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
"See Ya Next Week, " Giclee Print after 1999 Mixed Media signed by Reginald Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"See Ya Next Week" is a giclee print on paper after a 1999 acrylic and pastel on grocery bag signed by Reginald K. Gee. A male and a female embrace in the foreground. The man's face ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Giclée
"Bland Impressions of Easy Park (The Fall Collection), " Acrylic signed by Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bland Impressions of Easy Park (The Fall Collection" is an original acrylic painting on canvas by Reginald K. Gee. It is signed in the lower-left corner. This painting depicts two s...
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Ulsto, " Abstract Figurative Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Ge
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ulsto" is an original oil pastel drawing on grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This piece features abstract color fields but also depicts an ab...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Upside Down Couple Strolling To Lunch, " Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Upside Down Couple Strolling to Lunch" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right and upper left. This piece...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
"Walk, " Figurative Oil Pastel and Acrylic on Paper signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Walk" is an original oil pastel and acrylic painting on paper by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This piece features a line of three people walking in fron...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic
"Remembering, " Abstract Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Remembering" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features an abstracted, skeleton-like man in front of...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Psalm 63:4...While I Live, " Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Psalm 63:4...While I Live" is a religious original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed and titled the piece lower right. This piece illustrates...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Sincerely Yours, " Oil Pastel mounted to Cardboard signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sincerely Yours" is an original oil pastel drawing mounted to cardboard. The artist, Reginald K. Gee, signed the piece on the back. This piece depicts four men looking out at the vi...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Cardboard
"Two Citizens, " Figurative Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Citizens" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece upper left. Gee engages a variety of themes in his work, including ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Frozen In Ice, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag Portrait signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Frozen In Ice" is an oil pastel on grocery bag signed by Reginald K. Gee. The figure is quickly sketched in blue, with yellow around the throat and green along the leg. The backgrou...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Other Medium
"3AM Sleepwalking Composer, " Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"3AM Sleepwalking Composer" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right as well as signing & dating it on the back....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Cream Soda, " Acrylic Painting on Canvas Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cream Soda" is an original acrylic painting on canvas board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the artwork on the back. This artwork depicts an abstract...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Fap, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fap" is an original oil pastel on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features abstract marks in pastel green, blue, and pink that suggest the outline of a face.
16 1/2" x 11 3/4" art
Custom framing is available
Reginald K. Gee was born in Milwaukee on April 28, 1964 to Native American and African American parents and spent most of his childhood on the northwest side of Milwaukee in the Havenwoods neighborhood. Gee has been creating art since 1982, and his professional art debut began in 1986 at an outdoor exhibition at Milwaukee’s Performing Arts Center. Like Prophet William J. Blackmon and Simon Sparrow...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Ocean Window, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ocean Window" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. It depicts fish and underwater plants with a frame of abstracted colors. The artist signed the p...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Rewarding the Screamer With a Tax-Okayed Winter Retreat, " by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Rewarding the Screamer With a Tax Okayed Winter Retreat" is an original acrylic painting on canvas board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features a t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
"English Teddy Bear Company, " Watercolor by Bruce McCombs
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"English Teddy Bear Company" is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts the front window display of a toy store. The window allows the viewer to peek inside but al...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Door County, Wisconsin, " Landscape Silkscreen Travel Poster
By Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Door County Wisconsin" is an original silkscreen by Schomer Lichtner. The artist signed the piece lower right in pencil and in the screen. This piece feat...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen, Ink
"Song 111, " an Acrylic on Paper signed by Karen Hoepting
By Karen Hoepting
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Song 111" is an original acrylic painting on paper signed in the lower right by artist Karen Hoepting. It depicts a lion at the transition between day and night. A blue bird also fl...
Category
Early 2000s Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Machias Seal Island Light
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Wolf Kahn was commissioned by the Smithsonian to design a postcard for them. He made four designs and they selected a singular one. This drawing here is one of the few rejected designs. This piece was given to the founder, David Barnett, of the David Barnett Gallery...
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"L'Entree en scene (The Emergence), " Color Lithograph after Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"L'Entree en scene (The Emergence)" is a color lithograph after a 1961 original piece by Rene Magritte. A transparent bird flies over the ocean. The body of this bird shows through it a clean light sky with fluffy clouds. The view around the bird is instead the dark night, stars shine at the top of the scene. Clouds blow by and the waves are turbulent.
Art: 20.25 x 14.25 in
Frame: 31.38 x 25.38 in
René-François-Ghislain Magritte was born November 21, 1898, in Lessines, Belgium and died on August 15, 1967 in Brussels. He is one of the most important surrealist artists. Through his art, Magritte creates humor and mystery with juxtapositions and shocking irregularities. Some of his hallmark motifs include the bourgeois “little man,” bowler hats, apples, hidden faces, and contradictory texts.
René Magritte’s father was a tailor and his mother was a miller. Tragedy struck Magritte’s life when his mother committed suicide when he was only fourteen. Magritte and his two brothers were thereafter raised by their grandmother.
Magritte studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918. After graduating he worked as a wallpaper designer and in advertisement. It was during this period that he married Georgette Berger, whom he had known since they were teenagers.
In 1926, René Magritte signed a contract with the Brussels Art Gallery, which allowed him to quit his other jobs and focus completely on creating art. A year later he had his first solo show at the Galerie la Centaurie in Brussels. At this show Magritte exhibited what is today thought of as his first surrealist piece, The Lost Jockey, painted in 1926. In this work a jockey and his steed run across a theater stage, curtains parted on either side. Throughout the scene, there are trees with trunks shaped somewhat like chess pawns with musical scores running vertically up their sides and branches sticking out from all angles. Critics did not enjoy this style of art; it was new, different, and took critical thought to understand, but The Lost Jockey was only the first of many surrealist artworks Magritte would paint.
Because of the bad press in Brussels, René and Georgette moved to Paris in 1927, with the hope that this center of avant-garde art would bring him success and recognition. In Paris, he was able to become friends with many other surrealists, including André Breton and Paul Éluard. They were able to learn from and inspire one another, pushing the Surrealist movement further forward.
It was also in Paris that Magritte decided to add text to some of his pieces, which was one of the elements that made his artwork stand out. In 1929, he painted one of his most famous oil works: The Treachery of Images. This is the eye-catching piece centered on a pipe. Below the pipe is written “Ceci n’est pas un pipe,” which translates to “This is not a pipe.” This simple sentence upset many critics of the time, for of course it was a pipe. Magritte replied that it was not a pipe, but a representation of a pipe. One could not use this oil on canvas as a pipe, to fill it with tobacco and smoke it. Thus, it was not a pipe.
In 1930, Magritte and Georgette moved back to Brussels. Though they would travel to his exhibitions elsewhere, their home going forward would always be in Brussels.
Magritte had his first American exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City in 1936 and his first show in England two years later in 1938 at The London Gallery...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Le Bouquet tout fait (The Ready-made Bouquet), " Lithograph after Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Bouquet tout fait (The Ready-made Bouquet)" is a color lithograph after a 1954 original painting by Rene Magritte. A bourgeois "little man" faces away from the viewer looking towards a fall forest. Flora, the goddess of flowers and season of spring, from Sandro Botticelli's "Primavera" is painted on the back of the man. This juxtaposes fall and spring.
Art: 12 x 9.75 in
Frame: 22.38 x 20.38 in
René-François-Ghislain Magritte was born November 21, 1898, in Lessines, Belgium and died on August 15, 1967 in Brussels. He is one of the most important surrealist artists. Through his art, Magritte creates humor and mystery with juxtapositions and shocking irregularities. Some of his hallmark motifs include the bourgeois “little man,” bowler hats, apples, hidden faces, and contradictory texts.
René Magritte’s father was a tailor and his mother was a miller. Tragedy struck Magritte’s life when his mother committed suicide when he was only fourteen. Magritte and his two brothers were thereafter raised by their grandmother.
Magritte studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918. After graduating he worked as a wallpaper designer and in advertisement. It was during this period that he married Georgette Berger, whom he had known since they were teenagers.
In 1926, René Magritte signed a contract with the Brussels Art Gallery, which allowed him to quit his other jobs and focus completely on creating art. A year later he had his first solo show at the Galerie la Centaurie in Brussels. At this show Magritte exhibited what is today thought of as his first surrealist piece, The Lost Jockey, painted in 1926. In this work a jockey and his steed run across a theater stage, curtains parted on either side. Throughout the scene, there are trees with trunks shaped somewhat like chess pawns with musical scores running vertically up their sides and branches sticking out from all angles. Critics did not enjoy this style of art; it was new, different, and took critical thought to understand, but The Lost Jockey was only the first of many surrealist artworks Magritte would paint.
Because of the bad press in Brussels, René and Georgette moved to Paris in 1927, with the hope that this center of avant-garde art would bring him success and recognition. In Paris, he was able to become friends with many other surrealists, including André Breton and Paul Éluard. They were able to learn from and inspire one another, pushing the Surrealist movement further forward.
It was also in Paris that Magritte decided to add text to some of his pieces, which was one of the elements that made his artwork stand out. In 1929, he painted one of his most famous oil works: The Treachery of Images. This is the eye-catching piece centered on a pipe. Below the pipe is written “Ceci n’est pas un pipe,” which translates to “This is not a pipe.” This simple sentence upset many critics of the time, for of course it was a pipe. Magritte replied that it was not a pipe, but a representation of a pipe. One could not use this oil on canvas as a pipe, to fill it with tobacco and smoke it. Thus, it was not a pipe.
In 1930, Magritte and Georgette moved back to Brussels. Though they would travel to his exhibitions elsewhere, their home going forward would always be in Brussels.
Magritte had his first American exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City in 1936 and his first show in England two years later in 1938 at The London...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"La Grande Guerre (The Great War), " Color Lithograph after Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Grande Guerre (The Great War)" is a color lithograph after the 1964 painting by Rene Magritte. A Victorian lady stands in white facing the viewer. A bouq...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"La Bataille de l'Argonne (The Battle of Argonne), " Litho after Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Bataille de l'Argonne (The Battle of Argonne)" is a color lithograph after the original 1959 painting by Rene Magritte. The landscape is shrouded by ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Smith Brothers Restaurant
By Ruth Grotenrath
Located in Milwaukee, WI
An original color silkscreen print by Ruth Grotenrath. A lovely assortment of different foods both vegetable and animal alike. The photos do not do this piece justice. The dark color...
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Ink, Printer's Ink, Screen
Abstract Kinetic Sculpture Statement Minimalism Balance White Bauman Signed
By Arthur Bauman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Untitled (Sun Over the Rain Clouds)" is an abstract kinetic sculpture with many moving parts created by Arthur Bauman. The artist carved his initials into the red disc that hangs at...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Annette"
By Alberto Giacometti
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Annette" is a black and white lithograph after Alberto Giacometti, published in Derriere le Miroir. It depicts the bust of a nude woman in scratchy lines. Annette was Alberto's wife and frequently modeled for his sculptures and drawings.
10" x 7 1/4" art
21 1/4" x 18 5/8" frame
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was born in Borgonovo, a Swiss municipality, to the post-impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti.
In 1922 he moved to Paris to study under the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, an associate of Auguste Rodin. It was there that Giacometti experimented with cubism and surrealism and came to be regarded as one of the leading surrealist sculptors. Among his associates were Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Bror Hjorth and Balthus.
Between 1936 and 1940, Giacometti concentrated his sculpting on the human head, focusing on the sitter's gaze. He preferred models he was close to, his sister and the artist Isabel Rawsthorne (then known as Isabel Delmer). This was followed by a unique artistic phase in which his statues of Isabel became stretched out; her limbs elongated. Obsessed with creating his sculptures exactly as he envisaged through his unique view of reality, he often carved until they were as thin as nails and reduced to the size of a pack of cigarettes, much to his consternation. A friend of his once said that if Giacometti decided to sculpt you, "he would make your head look like the blade of a knife." After his marriage to Annette Arm in 1946 his tiny sculptures became larger, but the larger they grew, the thinner they became. Giacometti said that the final result represented the sensation he felt when he looked at a woman.
In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame. Even when he had achieved popularity and his work was in demand, he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later. The prints produced by Giacometti are often overlooked but the catalogue raisonné, Giacometti - The Complete Graphics and 15 Drawings by Herbert Lust (Tudor 1970), comments on their impact and gives details of the number of copies of each print. Some of his most important images were in editions of only 30 and many were described as rare in 1970.
In his later years Giacometti's works were shown in a number of large exhibitions throughout Europe. Riding a wave of international popularity, and despite his declining health, he travelled to the United States in 1965 for an exhibition of his works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As his last work he prepared the text for the book Paris sans fin...
Category
1970s Minimalist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,800
"Storm Over Tuscany" desert landscape oil signed peace calm adventure travel sky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A lovely landscape oil painting on a wooden board. This is a small but highly detailed piece. It is most certainly in the category of "photos do not do this work justice". The rolling hills lead you into the rainy clouds and it tricks the brain into thinking you can smell the wet fields. It is most wonderful to see this work in person. It brings the sense of falling through a portal or peeking through one into a different part of the world.
Signed and dated by the artist on the lower right.
Artwork Size: 7 x 12"
Frame Size: 14 1/2" x 17 1/2"
Artist Bio:
DOUGLAS B. SMITH Doug received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1958. He then studied for a year in the Joseph Albers program at Yale University. After working for nine years in advertising and package design, Doug joined Avon Products and served as Creative Director of Design from 1971-1996. Doug's training as a professional illustrator led him to produce realistic renditions of many everyday scenes whether they arepure landscapes, architectural elements or figures. His painting evolved into natural and plein air landscapes suitable for the New England environment where he painted for over two decades. Doug's work is housed in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States and has been exhibited at the Salmagundi Club in New York City, and the Society of Illustrators in New York City. His paintings have been exhibited across the USA in Annual National Juried Exhibitions of the Oil Painters of America. He has exhibited at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, CT, the David Barnett Gallery in Milwaukee, WI, and at the Worthington...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Mes Petites Amies, Les Deux Sœurs" signed by Jacques Villon
By Jacques Villon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This is a drypoint and aquatint artwork by Jacques Villon. The artist signed in pencil on the lower right. As well as signed in plate at the top right of the image. This is a wonderful artwork of different intaglio processes being brought together in a beautiful almost seamless harmony. The thin pencil like markings and hair detailing are made using the Drypoint printmaking method. Whilst the color details around the girls are made using the Aquatint etching method. Jacques Villon shows his skills as a printmaker with the way these pieces line up perfectly and with how clean the rest of the plate is around the girls. An unnumbered impression, apart from the numbered edition of 50.
Catalogue Raisonne E101, pg. 66-67 (Ginestet & Pouillon. It depicts two young girls.
15" x 11 1/2" art
25 1/8" x 20" frame
French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint, Etching, Intaglio
Teton Full Moon
By Thomas Ferderbar
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Teton Full Moon" is an original photograph created by Thomas Ferderbar. A vast and sweeping landscape photo encapsulating the moon overlooking the mountains. A magnificent view show...
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
"Family of Six, " Original Lithograph signed by John Thomas Biggers
By John Thomas Biggers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Family of Six" is an original black and white lithograph by John Biggers. The artist signed and dated the piece in the lower right and titled and editioned it (AP III) in the lower ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740, " Crayon signed by S. Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740" is an original colorful crayon drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza, signed in pencil in the lower right corner. The sailboat of the title is in the center, set against a deep blue sky upon a dark green sea. It is framed by a abstract shapes of bright color that flow into one another in curving lines. The horizon line is maintained throughout the composition, and the effect is something like looking through a kaleidoscope.
Art size: 8 1/2" x 7 1/4"
Frame size: 16 1/4" x 14 1/2"
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
Category
1950s Art Deco Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
