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MARC CHAGALL "La petite fenêtre"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL 1887 - 1985
"La petite fenêtre"
Colour lithograph, June 1974
54.8x41 cm, sheet size
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right "Marc Chagall", inscribed on the left "E.A."
Catalogue Raisonné
Sorlier 726
Condition
Artist's proof on Japan, with a minimal crease in the lower right corner, overall fresh in colour and in very nice condition
Comments
Published by Maeght, Paris
Marc Zakharovich Chagall
Born Moishe Zakharovich Shagal, 6 July 1887 – 28 March 1985, was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.
Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the 20th century” (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz,windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opera.
Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PABLO PICASSO "Tête de Femme au Chapeau"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (French-Spanish 1881-1973 )
"Tête de Femme au Chapeau"
Color lithograph, 1956. 650x540 mm; 25 5/8x21 1/4 inches, full margins.
Proof before letters. Signed in blue c...
Category
1950s Cubist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall "Song of the Bow"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL ( 1887- 1985 )
“ Song of the Bow”
1958
from ‘The Bible’
Original Etching with hand-coloring in watercolor. Signed with initials and numbered 17/100 in pencil, published...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Watercolor
Jadeite Jade Bonsai Tree with Birds Carving
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Item JD803
Jadeite Jade carved Bonsai Tree with Birds in natural translucent Green color. This intricately hand carved natural Jadeite jade is sitting on a custom made wood stand. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Precious Stone
Jadeite Jade Flower Vase Carving
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Item JD823
Jadeite Jade carved vase with flowers, fruits in natural Green, Yellow and Lavander colors. This intricately hand carved natural Jadeite jade is sitting on a custom made ...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Precious Stone
Erte " Amazon "
By Erte - Romain de Tirtoff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erte, Russian (1892 - 1989)
Bronze Sculpture "Amazon"
Circa 1985, Edition #118 of 375 ...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Erte " Rue dela Paix
By Erte - Romain de Tirtoff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erte, Russian (1892 - 1989)
Title: Rue de la Paix
Year: 1987
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and numbering on base
Edition: 15/350
Size: 14.25 x 7 x 3 in. (36.195 x 17.78 x 7.62 ...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ting Shao Kuang " Huntress"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ting Shao Kuang (1939, Chengdu, China) "Huntress"
Limited Edition Bronze Sculpture,
1990.
Edition NUMBER 99/250. Signed on base.
19.5" H x 12"W 49.53 x 30.48 cm
Ting Shao Kuang was born in 1939, in Chenggu, a small village located in the Northern province of Shanxi, China. His earliest childhood was marked by the horrors of the Sino-Japanese war that destroyed his land and left him abandoned after the evacuation of his parents to Taiwan.
He found his consolation and escape in painting and by the age of 11, he painted on a daily basis, using the cooking oil as a medium for the pigment. Even besides his limited supplies, Ting Shao Kuang managed to use his extraordinary talent and got the opportunity to attend a prestigious high school which was connected with the Beijing’s Central Academy of Arts and Crafts where he later gained his further education. His painting lessons were based on rules of Social Realism without freedom of expression and with the strict prohibition of any foreign influences.
After graduation in 1962, Kuang obtained a position to teach at the Yunnan Art Institute in Kunming. Painting the unacceptable abstract paintings during the night, he would destroy every piece of them in the morning, fearing of the arrestment of the authorities of the country. Still, Ting Shao Kuang’s progressive and modern vision did not fail to attract the attention and he was suspended from his work and escaped to northern China, finding the refuge in Buddhist monasteries in Gansu where he studied ancient sculpture and cave paintings on the old Silk Route which had been preserved for centuries.
Using the distinctive technique, Ting Shao Kuang’s work combines traditional Chinese influences with the Western art forms. Always turning to the female characters as his favorite subjects, their sophisticated shapes have been created from the artist’s deepest feelings and literature that inspired him. After the death of Mao, Kuang and his colleagues founded the famous Yunnan Shen She Art...
Category
1990s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Erte " Eve"
By Erte - Romain de Tirtoff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Romain de Tirtoff known as ERTE (1892-1990)
"Eve"
Gouache decor project on paper
Sheet Size : 14.6"H x 10.6"W (37 x 27 cm)
Framed Size : 26"H X 22"W
On the back, countersigned, num...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Gouache
Ting Shao Kuang "Pensive Seated Woman"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ting Shao Kuang (B. 1939)
"Pensive Seated Woman"
1989
Cold painted bronze sculpture; signed in casting, stamped "15/250 [copyright symbol] Segal Fine Art 1989"
Dimensions:
16 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (41.9 x 38.7 cm.)
Ting Shao Kuang was born in 1939, in Chenggu, a small village located in the Northern province of Shanxi, China. His earliest childhood was marked by the horrors of the Sino-Japanese war that destroyed his land and left him abandoned after the evacuation of his parents to Taiwan.
He found his consolation and escape in painting and by the age of 11, he painted on a daily basis, using the cooking oil as a medium for the pigment. Even besides his limited supplies, Ting Shao Kuang managed to use his extraordinary talent and got the opportunity to attend a prestigious high school which was connected with the Beijing’s Central Academy of Arts and Crafts where he later gained his further education. His painting lessons were based on rules of Social Realism without freedom of expression and with the strict prohibition of any foreign influences.
After graduation in 1962, Kuang obtained a position to teach at the Yunnan Art Institute in Kunming. Painting the unacceptable abstract paintings during the night, he would destroy every piece of them in the morning, fearing of the arrestment of the authorities of the country. Still, Ting Shao Kuang’s progressive and modern vision did not fail to attract the attention and he was suspended from his work and escaped to northern China, finding the refuge in Buddhist monasteries in Gansu where he studied ancient sculpture and cave paintings on the old Silk Route which had been preserved for centuries.
Using the distinctive technique, Ting Shao Kuang’s work combines traditional Chinese influences with the Western art forms. Always turning to the female characters as his favorite subjects, their sophisticated shapes have been created from the artist’s deepest feelings and literature that inspired him. After the death of Mao, Kuang and his colleagues founded the famous Yunnan Shen She Art...
Category
1980s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
PABLO PICASSO "Deux femmes pres de la fenetre" (Two Women Near a Window)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
"Deux femmes pres de la fenetre" (Two Women Near a Window)
Linocut in colors on Arches
1959
pencil-signed and numbered 23/50; published by Galerie Louise Le...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
PABLO PICASSO "Minotaure aveugle guidé par Marie-Thérèse au Pigeon..."
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
"Minotaure aveugle guidé par Marie-Thérèse au Pigeon dans une Nuit étoilée"
1934
Numbered 1/3 (in Red on lower left) and signed in red Picasso (on lower right)
Aquatint, scraper, drypoint and burin in parchment paper.
13 1/8 x 17 5/16 inches
Image Size 9.1/2"H x 13 3/16"W
Sheet Size : 16 7/16"H x 21" W
Framed Size: 27.5"H x 31.25"W x 1.5"D
From the Suite Vollard...
Category
1930s Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint, Parchment Paper
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