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Pastel Palette of the Panhandle
By Andre Kohn
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original work by Andre Kohn. Growing up near the Caspian Sea, Kohn's received a formal art education from the University of Moscow where he studied with members of the la...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board
The City Gal
By Andre Kohn
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original work by Andre Kohn. Growing up near the Caspian Sea, Kohn's received a formal art education from the University of Moscow where he studied with members of the la...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board
On the Theme of Three
By Andre Kohn
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original work by Andre Kohn. Growing up near the Caspian Sea, Kohn's received a formal art education from the University of Moscow where he studied with members of the la...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Mixed Media
Shyness
By Roman Frances
Located in Atlanta, GA
Small limited edition run of 49 and 6 E.A."s (Edition of the artist). Each canvas reproduction is crafted by a skilled printer under the supervision of the artist. Román Francés has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Giclée
Tenderness
By Roman Frances
Located in Atlanta, GA
Small limited edition run of 49 and 6 E.A."s (Edition of the artist). Each canvas reproduction is crafted by a skilled printer under the supervision of the artist. Román Francés has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Giclée
Peacefulness
By Roman Frances
Located in Atlanta, GA
Small limited edition run of 49 and 6 E.A."s (Edition of the artist). Each canvas reproduction is crafted by a skilled printer under the supervision of the artist. Román Francés has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Giclée
Vendimiadora (Grape Harvester)
By Roman Frances
Located in Atlanta, GA
Small limited edition run of 49 and 6 E.A."s (Edition of the artist). Each canvas reproduction is crafted by a skilled printer under the supervision of the artist. Román Francés has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Giclée
Splendor
By Roman Frances
Located in Atlanta, GA
Small limited edition run of 49 and 6 E.A."s (Edition of the artist). Each canvas reproduction is crafted by a skilled printer under the supervision of the artist. Román Francés has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Giclée
Restful Moments
By Roman Frances
Located in Atlanta, GA
Small limited edition run of 49 and 6 E.A."s (Edition of the artist). Each canvas reproduction is crafted by a skilled printer under the supervision of the artist. Román Francés has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Giclée
Autumn Care
Located in Atlanta, GA
Oleg Ardimasov was born on July 24, 1936 in the village of Lermontovka, in the Khabarovsk region of Russia. As a young artist, Oleg studied visual arts under Anfisa Burkova. After n...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Pequena Italia (Little Italy) NYC
By Jesus Navarro
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
Jesús Navarro was born in Jerez, (Cadiz), located in southern Spain, in 1952. By the age of tw...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Artist Materials On Shelves
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting beautifully captures a realistic view of an artist's studio. The boxes covered in oil paint fingerprints, the small dent in the wall, the palette, tubes of paint scatt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saturday in the Sun
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in galleries. Born in Alcoy, Alicante, Spain in 1948, Ventura Diaz studied in the Fine Arts School in Valencia. His cu...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Apple Harvest
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is featured in a hand-carved wood frame imported from Spain.
Justo Revilla, born in Madrid, Spain in 1940 began his artistic career at the age of thirteen where he also...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cabbage Vendors
Located in Atlanta, GA
Justo Revilla, born in Madrid, Spain in 1940 began his artistic career at the age of thirteen where he also attended the Arts and Crafts school. While working in a poster studio he p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman In Market Setting
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is featured in a hand-carved wood frame imported from Spain.
Justo Revilla, born in Madrid, Spain in 1940 began his artistic career at the age of thirteen where he a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Sorolla Book
Located in Atlanta, GA
Alicia Grau was born in 1955 in Barcelona, Spain. She began her artistic schooling and training at a very young age by attending the La Escuela de Artes y Oficios. Grau graduated fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Between Two Waters
By Alejos Lorenzo
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in galleries. This painting is gallery wrapped and finished on the edges so it can be hung without a frame. Frame op...
Category
2010s Pop Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Still Life with Architectural Columns and Pear" by Leon Olmo 31 x 52 inches
By Leon Olmo
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. With frame dimensions are approximately 44" x 64"
Leon Olmo was born in Moron de la Frontera at the end of the 1940's beginning at a young age to study drawing and wax technique. From heightened stimulation incredible still-lifes are produced from the nearby aromas of lemons, jasmine, pomegranates, and medlars, fruits which often appear throughout his paintings.
Olmo is a self-taught painter, reaching the status as one of Seville’s most talented artists through strict perseverance in drawing and painting. Working until complete exhaustion, Olmo attempts to capture all of himself with every image he creates. For Olmo, neatness and cleanliness go hand in hand when creating a work of art. Though he denies traditional academicism, Olmo does utilize a methodical approach in each painting that begins with strict preparation of the fibrapan board upon which he paints. Beginning with a primer composed of calcium sulfate and glue, he sands the board’s surface until smooth. This regimented routine is in accord with Olmo’s insistence of maintaining neatness and cleanliness for he has rejected the use of canvas where any imperfection is not up to standard.
He then picks juicy fresh fruits from their trees and retrieves wooden boards from a collection that he has acquired over the years during walks with his father. Arranging the objects for the desired effect, the outcome will be a play of shadows between the background and brilliant center of the composition. With the brush he draws simple motifs and leaves layers of paint until he achieves a magic luminosity, where the observer can actually see through space, a transparent quality distinctly from the hand of Olmo. The recreation of natural elements in his paintings is to remind the observer of humanity’s material nature. The symbolic use of jasmine is special to the artist, in order to represent the grandeur of small things, six petals with an incredible scent which contain within them the magic of the artist and of his Andalusian land.
Olmo’s dreamlike masterpieces contain human warmth that has an unsurpassable way of working their way into the hearts and minds of his collectors. Leon Olmo and his son Leon Reina make up a father and son painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Girl Sitting On Beach
By Vincente Esparza
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. Item includes frame
Vincente Esparza was born in Graus, Huesca in 1946. In 1967 he began his studie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Roses growing on Stucco Wall
By Fernando Alcaraz
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. Item includes frame;
Fernando Ibañez Alcaraz was born in Alcoy, Alicante (Spain) in 1969. Growing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rose in Glass with Marble
By Leon Olmo
Located in Atlanta, GA
Leon Olmo was born in Moron de la Frontera at the end of the 1940's beginning at a young age to study drawing and wax technique. He currently lives in Castilleja de la Cuesta where he paints out of his studio; a place that arouses the senses and inspires Olmo’s magnificent technique. From heightened stimulation incredible still-lifes are produced from the nearby aromas of lemons, jasmine, pomegranates, and medlars, fruits which often appear throughout his paintings.
Olmo is a self-taught painter, reaching the status as one of Seville’s most talented artists through strict perseverence in drawing and painting. Working until complete exhaustion, Olmo attempts to capture all of himself with every image he creates. For Olmo, neatness and cleanliness go hand in hand when creating a work of art. Though he denies traditional academicism, Olmo does utilize a methodical approach in each painting that begins with strict preparation of the fibrapan board upon which he paints. Beginning with a primer composed of calcium sulfate and glue, he sands the board’s surface until smooth. This regimented routine is in accord with Olmo’s insistence of maintaining neatness and cleanliness for he has rejected the use of canvas where any imperfection is not up to standard.
He then picks juicy fresh fruits from their trees and retrieves wooden boards from a collection that he has acquired over the years during walks with his father. Arranging the objects for the desired effect, the outcome will be a play of shadows between the background and brilliant center of the composition. With the brush he draws simple motifs and leaves layers of paint until he achieves a magic luminosity, where the observer can actually see through space, a transparent quality distinctly from the hand of Olmo. The recreation of natural elements in his paintings is to remind the observer of humanity’s material nature. The symbolic use of jasmine is special to the artist, in order to represent the grandeur of small things, six petals with an incredible scent which contain within them the magic of the artist and of his Andalusian land.
Olmo’s dreamlike masterpieces contain human warmth that has an unsurpassable way of working their way into the hearts and minds of his collectors. Leon Olmo and his son Leon Reina make up a father and son painting...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Divine Fruit
By Jesus Navarro
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
Jesús Navarro was born in Jerez, (Cadiz), located in southern Spain, in 1952. By the age of tw...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fresh Pick
By Jesus Navarro
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
Jesús Navarro was born in Jerez, (Cadiz), located in southern Spain, in 1952. By the age of tw...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers by the Window
By Pietro Piccoli
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
Pietro Piccoli was born in 1954 in the small town of Montopoli di Sabina in central Italy. At...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Metaphysical scene with Daisy
By Antonio Torres
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting.
This specific work has the following story:
Model dancer: Kristina Tavarovskaya
In this metaphysical...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Let's Go Fishing
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition, new gallery arrival.
Jorge Segrelles is a Spanish artists born in Alicante in 1960, but moved to Barcelona wh...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paul Newman
By Federico Lopez
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery.
Federico López Córcoles was born in the Alicante region of Spain in 1970. This area is well-known for ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Louie Armstrong
By Federico Lopez
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery.
Federico López Córcoles was born in the Alicante region of Spain in 1970. This area is well-known for ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bruce Springsteen
By Federico Lopez
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery.
Federico López Córcoles was born in the Alicante region of Spain in 1970. This area is well-known for ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Queen Elizabeth
By Federico Lopez
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery.
Federico López Córcoles was born in the Alicante region of Spain in 1970. This area is well-known for ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Waterloo Station - London
By Jesus Navarro
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
Jesús Navarro was born in Jerez, (Cadiz), located in southern Spain, in 1952. By the age of tw...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Poem
By Brad Robertson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. Please note the colors are difficult to capture and may vary due to different digital screens ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Solitudes of Sky
By Michael Rich
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
The paintings, drawings and prints of Michael Rich reflect an approach to nature and landscap...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Signs of Life
By Michael Rich
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
The paintings, drawings and prints of Michael Rich reflect an approach to nature and landscap...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Kobe Bryant
By Federico Lopez
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The painting does not include a frame, but is painted on the edges and is gallery wrapped. "The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do." - Kobe Bryant...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Doll
By Vincente Esparza
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting.
Vincente Esparza was born in Graus, Huesca in 1946. In 1967 he began his studies at La Escuela De ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Unrestrained
By Jose Borrell
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery.
Josep Borell was born in Alcoy (Alicante) on January 25th, 1969. He was born into a family without a tra...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Time to Cheer" Oil on Canvas by Laura 12" x 16"
By Laura 113
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. Item includes custom built frame; framed dimensions are approximately 14 x 18 inches.
Laura was born...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Doll
By Vincente Esparza
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting.
Vincente Esparza was born in Graus, Huesca in 1946. In 1967 he began his studies at La Escuela De ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Desert Sunrise
By Bette Ridgeway
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. Framing options available at an additional cost.
Bette Ridgeway’s oeuvre, her signature tech...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lauretta's Feeling 2
By Antonio Torres
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting.
The featured dancer is Lauretta Summerscales (London Ballet).
Throughout his evolution as a painter...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Smoke Rise
By Brad Robertson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. Please note the colors are difficult to capture and may vary due to different digital screens ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
La Bueno Vida
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery. Her works were recently featured in the March issue of American Art Collector magazine 2022. A hardbound-book is included with your purchase.
Whether depicting lively night parties on the beach, Parisian streets, or bustling sidewalk cafes of her native Madrid, the paintings of Paloma Hinojosa...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ferrocaril en Nuevo Mexico (Railway in New Mexico)
By Miguel Peidro
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition. Miguel Peidro possesses an innate sensitivity and knowledge of nature that clearly resonates in his work. Its open and panoramic composition...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Good Green Earth
By Brad Robertson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. Please note the colors are difficult to capture and may vary due to different digital screens and settings.
Brad Robertson has painted all his life. Born and raised in the coastal town of Mobile, Alabama, his earliest inspiration was the landscape- the indigenous pines and oak trees, and the waters of Mobile Bay...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
The Lifekeeper
By Alejos Lorenzo
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in galleries. This painting is gallery wrapped and finished on the edges so it can be hung without a frame. Frame options available upon request at an additional cost-please message us with any questions.
Lorenzo’s work combines color inspiration from the impressionists and stylistics of pop like David Hockney...
Category
2010s Pop Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
My Treasure
By Alejos Lorenzo
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in galleries. This painting is gallery wrapped and finished on the edges so it can be hung without a frame. Frame options available upon request at an additional cost-please message us with any questions.
Lorenzo’s work combines color inspiration from the impressionists and stylistics of pop like David Hockney...
Category
2010s Pop Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Reflejos Otonal (Autumnal Reflections)
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition. Unique, painted on an artist palette.
Salvador Caballero, (1943 - 2006) was one of many self-taught paint...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
First Pick
By Jesus Navarro
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
Jesús Navarro was born in Jerez, (Cadiz), located in southern Spain, in 1952. By the age of tw...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mariana Regina
By Maria Torroba
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The immensely popular Mariana Regina includes a fabric collar with an antique...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Mariana Intense Pink
By Maria Torroba
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. Mariana Intense Pink includes an antique handkerchief and collar that both include embroidery. In this work Torroba pays homage to Spanish Baroque master artist Diego Velazquez.
Maria Torroba’s interests in design, collage and art history combine to create unique artworks that look to the past in order to portray the present. After studying art for a year in Oxford, England, Torroba became interested in famous portraiture by artists such as Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, English Tudor court painter Master John, and the iconic Spanish Baroque artist Diego Velazquez. Inspired by history, Torroba’s work re-examines antique portraiture...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Elegant Mariana
By Maria Torroba
Located in Atlanta, GA
This item has only been displayed in gallery setting and is in excellent condition. Mixed media on canvas.
Born in Madrid in 1963, Maria Torroba studied art in her hometown where she experimented with various techniques and themes. She earned recognition for her talents and was accepted into the prestigious Fine Arts program at the Peña Academy in Madrid from which she graduated with distinction in 1980.
After studying art for a year in Oxford, England, Torroba became interested in famous portraiture by artists such as Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, English Tudor court painter Master John, and the iconic Spanish Baroque artist Diego Velazquez. Inspired by history, Torroba returned to Spain where she continues to work and re-examine historical portraiture. She is particularly interested in fifteenth- through seventeenth-century paintings of royal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Rolling Stones
By Federico Lopez
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery.
Federico López Córcoles was born in the Alicante region of Spain in 1970. This area is well-known for ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Love in Atlanta 1
By Antonio Torres
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting.
Throughout his evolution as a painter, Antonio Torres has dedicated himself to one recurring theme....
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Lauretta's Feeling 3
By Antonio Torres
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting.
The featured dancer is Lauretta Summerscales (London Ballet).
Throughout his evolution as a painter...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Painted Sky
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition, new gallery arrival.
Jorge Segrelles is a Spanish artists born in Alicante in 1960, but moved to Barcelona wh...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Southern Shores
By Brad Robertson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. Please note the colors are difficult to capture and may vary due to different digital screens and settings.
Brad Robertson has painted all his life. Born and raised in the coastal town of Mobile, Alabama, his earliest inspiration was the landscape- the indigenous pines and oak trees, and the waters of Mobile Bay. The coastal landscape is still a major source of inspiration for Robertson.
At Auburn University...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Rouge II
By Marcel Demagny
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery. Marcel Demagny was born in 1949 in Nancy, France. He graduated from the Nancy School of Architecture in...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eva With Violin
By Cornelis Le Mair
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. This painting was procured direct from the artist's studio.
Cornelis le Mair is truly a renaissance man, encompassing all disciplines of the arts. He enjoys painting, drawing, writing, architecture, sculpture, and interior design.
Le Mair was born in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 1944. He began drawing and painting at the young age of five and while in kindergarten, he was often made to show his paintings in other classes even though he was shy about doing so. “When I could not play outside because of bad weather, I would sit in my bedroom and would draw.” His early art studies were widely influenced by the Rembrandt exhibit in the Rijksmuseum (1956) that he attended with his father. There le Mair was inspired by the Old Masters and “the desire to unravel all the mysteries hidden under the cracked varnish” began.
Already having painted a lifesize copy of “The Nightwatch” on the wall of his bedroom, le Mair was continually driven by the Rembrandt exhibit. He began to experiment with resins, pigments and oils in order to hone and perfect the technique of the old masters. He studied drawings and paintings and early on developed the feeling of color and composition.
After completing high school, he worked for a short period as a designer of woven fabrics. Although his heart desired to paint, he enjoyed having a pencil and brush in hand and a case full of art books and says, “This treasure of inspiring information took me further on track to the traditional trade.”
At this same time, le Mair’s artistic endeavors led him to learn the art of music. First learning to play the guitar from friends, he began performing at youth centers. This love of music expanded into him learning to play the mandolin, turning lye, banjo, and bagpipes.
Just after his eighteenth birthday, le Mair was accepted into military service where his lack of conforming led him to a maximum solitary confinement sentence. After a month in training, the army physician and le Mair agreed that he was born to be an artist and released le Mair from military services.
Once he returned home, with the encouragement from his parents, le Mair began his art schooling at the Art Academy (Kustacademie) in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. There he found that the school was geared for modernism and after painting a portrait of a fellow classmate, his teachers advised le Mair to look for a school where the traditional ideas were still taught. Longing to study the classical arts, he applied and was accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts (Koninklijke Kunstacademie) in Antwerp, Belgium in 1965. After studying under Professor Victor Dolphijn, le Mair graduated cum laude in portrait and figure paintings in 1968. He was then promoted to study as a student of the Higher Institute, a structure at a higher university level where he studied under Rik Slabbinck...
Category
1990s Northern Renaissance Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
