Vanity Mirror Art Object with Paintings and Collages

Self-taught artist John Seubert, AKA John Dolly, uses objects he uncovers as he rehabs older homes in Chicago. This piece has a figurative painting mounted as a shrine then set upon a corinthian capital and a granite stand. A metal plaque at the top as well as at the bottom give the piece it's title 'The Fountain on Lies". John Seubert The Fountain of LIes mixed media Measures: 22.50h x 13.50w x 4d in 57.15h x 34.29w x 10.16d cm JSE069 In the early Nineties, John Seubert was living in a former hotel in a high-rise building on St. James Place in Chicago. The apartment was tiny, as hotel rooms tend to be, and clad with paper-thin walls allowing sound to pass from one apartment to the other. At the time, John’s artwork consisted of pounding copper sheets into tables which was a noisy endeavor to say the least. Following several noise complaints from the neighbors, John had a dream that he was living in a ramshackle house but with plenty of room to work and no attached neighbors. The following day after lunching at the McDonalds in Lincoln Park, John wandered the neighborhood a came upon a shabby, falling-down old Victorian house. He located the real estate agent, put in an offer, and weeks later was pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings to his new home. This 144-year-old Painted Lady provided a blank canvas for this inimitable artist. For many years the house remained so empty that John was able to ride his Japanese fold up bike throughout the 1st floor. “Some people want to have sex...

Self-taught artist John Seubert, AKA John Dolly, repurposes objects he uncovers as he rehabs older homes in Chicago. This piece, based on a series of paintings by famed artist Joan M...

Self-taught artist John Seubert, AKA John Dolly, repurposes objects he uncovers as he rehabs older homes in Chicago. Here, a framed mirror is hinged to the back of a small abstract p...

Self-taught artist John Seubert, AKA John Dolly, uses objects he uncovers as he rehabs older homes in Chicago. This piece has two frames that are hinged together. A mirror adorns the outside. When opened, the right panel has a primitive figure painting while the left has a metal plaque with the phrase "I Need a Boy Toy" stamped into it. When closed, the back panel is stamped with "Like I Need a Refrigerator" and signed. John Seubert I Need a Boy-Toy (Like I Need a Refrigerator) mixed media 12.50h x 8.50w x 1.50d in 31.75h x 21.59w x 3.81d cm JSE074 In the early Nineties, John Seubert was living in a former hotel in a high-rise building on St. James Place in Chicago. The apartment was tiny, as hotel rooms tend to be, and clad with paper-thin walls allowing sound to pass from one apartment to the other. At the time, John’s artwork consisted of pounding copper sheets into tables which was a noisy endeavor to say the least. Following several noise complaints from the neighbors, John had a dream that he was living in a ramshackle house but with plenty of room to work and no attached neighbors. The following day after lunching at the McDonalds in Lincoln Park, John wandered the neighborhood a came upon a shabby, falling-down old Victorian house. He located the real estate agent, put in an offer, and weeks later was pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings to his new home. This 144-year-old Painted Lady provided a blank canvas for this inimitable artist. For many years the house remained so empty that John was able to ride his Japanese fold up bike throughout the 1st floor. “Some people want to have sex...

Albert Binquet Hand mirror, circa 1921 Made of wood, painted in ivory color, representing a stylized mask, the eyebrows and outer edges of the eyes underlined with black paint Measures: Height: 24 cm. (91/2 in.) ; Width: 14 cm. (51/2 in.) Signed in reverse A.BINQUET Size of the mirror without the stand: 24 cm high, by 14.2 cm wide, by 1.5 cm depth. A PAINTED WOOD MIRROR BY ALBERT BINQUET, CIRCA 1921 Subsequent to completion of his training in Barcelona, Albert Binquet, a native of Bordeaux, who trained at the Fine Art School, returned to France and collaborated with Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann to create certain sculptural reliefs for furniture, and for Robert Mallet-Stevens, a neo-Antique mask...

This beautiful bronze picture frame is designed in the French Empire style. The frame can use as a vanity mirror or a picture frame. The frame is rectangular in form, moulded with a horizontal...

Unique UFO Mirror by Ia Kutateladze Dimensions: W 33 x H 26 cm Materials: Clay UFO 02 is a hand built ceramic mirror. Playful and bold functional decorative object, for various types...

Unique UFO mirror by Ia Kutateladze Dimensions: W 33 x H 26 cm Materials: Clay UFO 02 is a hand built ceramic mirror. Playful and bold functional decorative object, for various ...