Bum Stocks Surrealist Clowns Oil Painting by Alfano Dardari

Oil on canvas painting representing two clowns on the ocean shore with a ship named Mela, Apple. Signed Alfano Dardari in the lower right. Titled The Li...

Alfano Dardari, Italian, 1924 to 1988, oil painting on canvas, The Barber, depicting a caricature scene with clowns. Signed lower right. Titled lower to...

Alfano Dardari (Italian, 1924-1988) “surrealist clowns painting” A fantastic 1950’s Italian oil on canvas painting depicting colorful clowns gatherin...

Claudio Rinaldi (Italian, fl. 1860-1900) Flirtation. Oil on canvas, signed and inscribed "Firenze" at the upper left corner, the canvas size . 13 ½" x 21 ½", framed in an ornately d...

Expressive clown painting - signed "Jen" circa 1950 - great frame Frame size = 22.5 x 26.5 Image size = 15.5 x 19.5.

An oil painting of circus performers by Emilio Grau Sala, featuring circus performers, including a dancer in a white tutu on a painted blue stage, ...

Armand Désiré Gautier (attrib.). Rectangular Framed oil on canvas representing the caricature of a male character standing up and holding in his right hand a red fabric purse. The c...

This portrait of a clown by Maurice Kish is part from a series of carnival figures, circus clowns and carousel horses and riders that he did in the 30s and 40s. The artist uses a vibrant color palette and controlled brushstrokes to depict the subject in a realistic way. The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York. Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist. Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else. For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass...