Plaster Paintings

Mix-media plaster white relief abstract painting signed "Kraft".

Eyre de Lanux (1894-1996) hailed from a prominent Philadelphia family, and studied painting in New York under Robert Henri. After marrying a French diplomat at the end of the First World War, she moved to Paris, and became an apprentice to the sculptor Constantin Brancusi. A talented painter and sculptor, Lanux specialized in what she called fresco paintings, which she showed in Paris and New York at the galleries of Peggy Guggenheim and Alexander Iolas. Fresco, however, is a misnomer since they are painted in wet plaster, and hers were incised and sculpted in a wet concrete-like mixture that she painted when dry. The lines incised in this pair of panels from the 1920s are similar to those chiseled in stone by Brancusi, but the Cubist compositions were inspired by her friend Pablo Picasso, who. One of these still lives depicts a bottle of Gordon’s Gin, a martini glass with an olive, a pipe, a smoldering cigar, an ace of diamonds, an Ionic capital, stars, a mask, and what looks like a newspaper. The other depicts a bottle of VO Whisky, a seltzer bottle, a cut-glass tumbler, a lemon for a twist, an ace of hearts, dice, and a ukulele, on a background of books. They belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Simpson of New York, a Social Register couple who collected art by Modigliani, Picasso, Matisse, de Chirico, and Miró. Around 1927 they asked Lanux to decorate their Paris pied-a-terre. She painted the dining room terracotta, designed a table with a terracotta top, bought chairs from Jean-Michel Frank, and collaborated on a rug design with the weaver Evelyn Wyld...

Painting with abstract landscape in gilded plaster frame by Joseph Domareki, American 1953 signed Joseph Domareki on bottom right corner and dated 3-31-53 on verso. Biography: From New Jersey, Joseph Domareki studied at Newark State College, earning a BA degree in 1937. He served in World War II in the Navy in the Pacific, and also was a combat artist covering campaings in the Gilbert, Caroline, and Marshall Islands. After the war, he earned an MA from the University of Iowa in 1947. He became Chair of the Art Department in 1964 of the School District of South Orange and Maplewood, New Jersey. He was President of the Audubon Artists from 1964-1968 and was a member of the National Society of Painters and Sculptors and the National Society of Painters in Casein. He had commissions for numerous hammered lead relief murals...

“Birds of a feather III” Venetian plaster on wood panel by artist Jo Hyman. Artist Statement: Born and raised in Houston, I grew up in a creative and musical family. My first a...

“Birds of a Feather II” Venetian plaster on wood panel by artist Jo Hyman. Artist Statement: Born and raised in Houston, I grew up in a creative and musical family. My first ar...

“Birds of a Feather I” Venetian plaster on wood panel by artist Jo Hyman. Artist Statement: Born and raised in Houston, I grew up in a creative and musical family. My first art...

“Circles of Life” Venetian plaster on wood panel by artist Jo Hyman. Artist Statement: Born and raised in Houston, I grew up in a creative and musical family. My first artistic...

Wall relief / painting on plaster from 1966 by Lasse Stevenfeldt. Made in Sweden.

Wall relief / painting on plaster from 1966 by Lasse Stevenfeldt. Made in Sweden.