Paintings

Steven Colucci’s iconoclastic approach to performance and the visual arts have not only long blurred the boundaries between these disciplines, but have challenged its most basic assumptions. The title of this show references a most rudimentary dance move -- the plié -- and our assumptions of what to expect in relation to this. Also the suggestion that we can simply press a button and a preconceived outcome will be courteously delivered -- a form of prefabricated belief in itself. Steven Colucci’s artwork turns such basic assumptions on their heads. Finding early inspiration in the New York school of abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock with his action painting, and then further by his professor -- a then young Vito Acconci while studying at the School of Visual Arts, Steven Colucci went from exploring the raw existentialist experimentation of New York’s early painting and performance scenes, to investigating the other end of the spectrum -- the rigorously measured and controlled disciplines of pantomime and ballet; studying in Paris under the tutelage of world-famous Marcelle Marceau, and engaging with the concepts of dramatic movement pioneer and intellectual Etienne Decroux. Colucci has explained the difference between the extremes of pantomime and dance as being that pantomime forces movement via an internal capacity -- movement directed inward to the core of one’s self -- a source requiring extreme mental and physical control. Dance by contrast is an external expression; likewise requiring great precision, although instead an extension of self or sentiment that projects outwardly. While such historical ‘movement’ disciplines serve as foundation blocks for Steven’s artistic explorations, it is the realm in between that he is best known for his contributions -- an experimental movement and performance art that simultaneously honors, yet defiantly refutes tradition; rejecting a compartmentalization regarding art and movement, yet incorporating its elements into his own brand of experimental pastiche. Colucci’s performance works manifest as eerily candy-coated and familiar, yet incorporate unexpected jags of the uncanny throughout, exploiting a sort of coulrophobia in the viewer; an exploration of a cumulative artifice that binds human nature against its darker tendencies; highlighting traditions of artifice itself -- the fabricated systemologies that necessitate compartmentalization in the first place. It is evident in Steven Colucci’s paintings that he has established a uniquely distinctive pictorial vocabulary; a strong allusion to -- or moreso an extension of -- his performance works. Colucci’s paintings depict a sort of kinetic spectrum, or as he refers to them “a technical expression of physicality and movement”. Whereas the French performance and visual artist Yves Klein used the human body as a “paint brush” to demarcate his paintings and thereby signify a residue of performance, Colucci’s utilization of nonsensical numbers and number sequences taken from dance scores, as well as heat-induced image abstraction depicting traces of movement likewise inform his vocabulary. In the strand of the choreographed, yet incorporating moments of chance, Colucci’s paintings represent an over arching structure; a rhythm of being and state, yet detail erratic moments -- moments that denote a certain frailty -- the edge of human stamina. Colucci’s paintings dually represent a form of gestural abstraction -- and also the reverse of this -- a unique anthropomorphization of varying states of movement -- that sometimes present as a temperature induced color field, at others are juxtapositions of movement and depictions of physical gestural images themselves. Colucci’s use of vernacular and found materials such as cardboard evoke his mastery of set design, and also reference a sort of collective experience of urbanity and the ephemeral. Such contradictions seem to permeate not only Steven Colucci’s artwork, but also are reflected in his person -- one who grew up in New York’s Bronx during a zeitgeist moment in visual and performing arts in the 1960s -- one who shifts with ease from happenings and experiments in New York City, to his meticulously choreographed megaproductions at Lincoln Center or starring in the Paris ballet...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1991, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - "Woodland Felicity" A pastoral scene of English parkland with deer resting on grass alongside a river, and a swan paddling close by. Medium: oil on canvas laid to board, unframed Painting : 9.75 x 8 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from a private UK collection of this artists work. Condition: The painting is in overall very good and sound condition, please note the upper edge and left edge of the board are not cut quite straight. This would be disguised when framed. Artist: Norman Arthur Olley was born in 1908 to a British Army family stationed in Lucknow, Bengal India. His mother died there in 1911, and his father in 1936. Norman married in Gravesend Kent in 1937, and at the beginning of the war in 1939 he was an aircraft sheet metal worker. He and his wife to Surrey in the late 1940's -early 1950's where he was a long term member of the Thames Valley Arts Club and where he regularly exhibited his work. In 1951 his painting "View from Richmond Park" was held in high regard at a very well attended exhibition in Esher, Surrey. The East Molesey area was one of his favourite areas to paint, a 1953 Art...

A stunning large and original Contemporary textured painting by Sophia Paleotheodoros in blue, white, burnish gold, yellow, red, black. Sophia ...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), undated, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Cornish Haybarn at Treglith Farm near Launceston in C...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), c.1990, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Chalk Church from Fulborough Marshes near Gravesend, K...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - "Springtime Rendezvous by a Murmuring Stream". Charming image of a village lane with a figure walking his dog, and another relaxing on the stone wall watching...

Cubist artwork, acrylic on canvas, by F. Miller, 1998. Dimensions: W42.5” x D2” x H49”.

This Plate comes from the book On The Rock Published by Montez press in 2016. The plates are a collaboration between the founders of Figure Ground on how to interrogate text into image. 16 plates...

Square abstract painting by listed artist Eva Cellini. Born in 1925, passing away in 2017. Please confirm location.

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1992, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Boys Fishing a Stream near Upnor in Kent. Lovely pastora...

This Plate comes from the book On The Rock Published by Montez press in 2016. The plates are a collaboration between the founders of Figure Ground on how to interrogate text into ima...

Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953) French Impressionist oil painting on thick paper, unframed. painting: 13 x 19.75 inches. very good and ready to be enjoyed. all the paintings we have f...

Psychedelic kaleidoscope of vibrant color and imagery. Done in the style of renown psychedelic 60s artist, Phillip Schreibman. Highly saturated reds and blues on a turquoise backgrou...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - "The Challenge", an Incident Occurring During a Sketching Tour at Farnham, Yorkshire in 1945. With a rather angry looking bull tethered in the pasture, below the artist, one can only imagine the incident! Medium: watercolor with pen and ink on stiff watercolor paper, unframed Painting : 9.5 x 13.5 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from a private UK collection of this artists work. Condition: The painting is in overall very good and sound condition. We have measured to exclude the unpainted white edges. Artist: Norman Arthur Olley was born in 1908 to a British Army family stationed in Lucknow, Bengal India. His mother died there in 1911, and his father in 1936. Norman married in Gravesend Kent in 1937, and at the beginning of the war in 1939 he was an aircraft sheet metal worker. He and his wife to Surrey in the late 1940's -early 1950's where he was a long term member of the Thames Valley Arts Club and where he regularly exhibited his work. In 1951 his painting "View from Richmond Park" was held in high regard at a very well attended exhibition in Esher, Surrey. The East Molesey area was one of his favourite areas to paint, a 1953 Art...

These beautiful abstract paintings are by York based artist Philip Wiseman. Originals don't come on the market very often so I am pleased to have been able to get hold of some. T...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1994, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - "Imelda" Girl with Auburn Hair at All Saints Church...

Christopher Lane (American,1937) This oil on canvas painting by Christopher Lane is very similar to one of his larger paintings that was displayed at...

European, Contemporary Abstract Painting by René Roche on Canvas, Late 20th Century; France; Painting by René Roche, 1979, contemporary painting, post-w...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1989, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Cloister Garth of Rochester Cathedral in Kent. This is p...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1991, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - View of Goose Eye Farm near Braithwaite Yorkshire, England...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her stud...

Oil on canva Polo Game by Pierre Bosco (1909-1993)- Circa 1960 Signed lower right Pierre Bosco, born January 29, 1909 in Visco, in the province of Udine, and died March 3, 1993 in Vernouillet, was an Italian painter and lithographer. He is best known in the 1970s as the painter of sport and horse racing. In the 1950s, he began to achieve greater success by participating in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, where his paintings received praise. The following year, he exhibited fifty paintings at the Galerie du Hérisson in front of an enthusiastic public. The French press associates paintings from this period with "bewitching magic", and according to the poet Guy Lavaud, "Bosco is a powerful painter and a visionary." For three consecutive years, the painter was selected for the prestigious prize of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. 1956, Bosco signs a fifteen-year contract with the famous Galerie de l'Elysée in Paris for an exclusive representation. At this stage of his career, Pierre Bosco has reached a maturity appreciated by art connoisseurs as well as by the press which is unanimous in praising his "dazzling visions"; Le Figaro considers him "as one of the greatest painters of his generation" and the New York Herald sees him as "the last Picasso in perspective, and very fashionable" (May 14, 1957). In 1964, he exhibited at the Max Bodner Gallery in New York Pierre Bosco occupies a privileged place among American and European collectors, particularly in France and Italy, but also in Scandinavian countries. Many Hollywood celebrities such as Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Jack...

Wonderful abstract painting from American artist Dennis Sakelson. Stark, bold, organic lines bring a sense of movement to any room. Please confirm item...

A wonderful modernist impasto oil painting by E. Francisco, dating from the mid-1970s, featuring excellent colour and texture. In great condition and one of those paintings that will...

Incredible original signed painting in golden frame. Subject is a group of people dancing and playing.  

Jason Woodside (American, b. 1982) acrylic and aerosol on canvas abstract trompe l'oeil painting of colorful contrasting patterns within concentric circ...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Cottage by the River...

Untitled, mix media, 1968 Additional information: Style: mixed media Label to verso Dimensions: 23 x 28 cm This work has been part of a private collec...

Marc Chagall Vers la autre Clarte Towards Another Light Lithograph Ltd Ed w/ COA Marc Chagall Color Lithograph, Vers la autre Clarte Towards Another Light. Lithograph on Arches pa...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Misty Morning, River Medway, Kent. Finely detailed maritime scene...

Harry Newman's Derelict cottages, Stagsden 1986 Watercolour, ink, crayon, gouache Signed lower right : Clifford Knight 1986 label verso : Ghosts & Silent Witness Exhibition, North...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1992, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Scots Pine in a Cornish Farmyard, depicting chicke...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1996, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Bronze Statue of Mary and ...

Early 20th Century pair of framed floral paintings signed by E.Howard.

"Pichwai (pichvai or Pichhavai) is a style of painting that originated over 400 years ago, in the town of Nathdwara near Udaipur in Rajasthan, India. Intricate and visually stunning, pichwai paintings...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1994, undated, inscribed verso Title - Woodstacks at the Alma Arms Inn, Weston Green, Thames Ditton, Surrey, Eng...

Konstens Göteborg, Nedslag i fyra sekel, Scandinavian Artists, 19 and 20thc. Gothenburg Museum of Art (Swedish: Göteborgs konstmuseum) is located at Götaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden. The museum holds the world's finest collection of late 19th century Nordic art...

Paintings by 19th century and Contemporary American Artists, from the Collection of The Late Samuel T. Shaw, NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Nov. 21, 1945. Softcover, 89 pp. 15 b&w plate...

Mixed media on canvas by Artist/Designer Donald Damask, 1974. Original piece directly from the artists personal collection from his home in Newport Beach...

Deep Design: Nine Little Art Histories by Libby Lumpkin. January 1, 1995 In nine ambitious essays of uncommon erudition, art historian Libby Lumpkin constructs quirky condensed his...

"Paysage 1963" by Bernard Dufour (Venice Biennale), oil on canvas, 1963 This work by Bernard Dufour was presented at the Venice Biennale in 1964. Bern...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - In a Monastery Garden. A view through timber framing int...

A beautiful watercolor of Peacock Island Fabulous quality. Lovely bright colours. Not faded at all. By Edwin Landseer Grundy*. Provenance- From an...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1993-95, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - In the Oast House at ...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1993, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Rochester Cathedral, Deanery Gate - depicting the coat of ...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1992, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Country Village and Pack Horse Bridge, and Ford by...

Lawrence Heyman, Fertilization III from the Atelier 17 series Etching on Arches paper Number 11/30 This work is signed by the artist. Has an individual n...

A pair of original oil paintings on canvas, from the mid 20th Century. Untitled, (Abstract). Unsigned, artist unknown. Presented in a black metal frames with clip hangers. Measures:...

An important acrylic/canvas painting from Fukui's early work approximating minimal forms within a square format. In a way these impacting 'Logos' (if you will) are at a juncture betw...

Painting by Svetlin Roussev, female nude, mixing technique on canvas. The painting shows a female nude in monochrome colors. It is unframed and signed on the back. Svetlin Roussev is a Bulgarian artist, politician, collector of works of art, academician of the Academy of Sciences. He was born June 14, 1933 in Varbitza, Pleven District. He graduated in painting from Prof. Dechko Uzunov in 1959. In 1977 he became a professor. He was President of the Union of Bulgarian Artists...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1991, signed to the front Title - This one has no inscription verso but we feel confident it is another ...

Unsigned painting by unknown artist. Made in Spain, circa 1960. Acrylic on canvas. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with ag...

Bomolo oil on canvas abstract painting signed bottom right 1960. Known in it's day as Airport Art, Local Artists would sell their paintings to Tourists. Ma...

Konigssee Measures: 30 cm x 40 cm (without frame) - oil on canvas, 1920s 11.8 in x 15.7 in (without frame). Painting depicting the Königssee, probably the most famous German alpine...

Unknown author, Composition, 1981 Color lithograph The number 8/50 Work with the artist's signature and individual number Working dimensions 63/71 Th...

Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953) French Impressionist Oil painting on thick paper, unframed. Painting: 8.75 x 13.75 inches. Very good and ready to be enjoyed. All the paintings we...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), undated, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - Winter Morning at a Surrey Farm, England A horse and cart with a farm dog...

Artist: Carlo Cuneo (Painter, Sculptor, and engraver) Italian (Genova 1914- 2005) Oil on Canvas Period: 1972 Artwork dimensions: 60 x 80cm Total measurements: 84 x 104cm Signed...