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Item Ships From: Atlanta
CHILD, 2008
By Edward Povey
Located in Atlanta, GA
1972-73 Eastbourne College for Art and Design: Fine Art Foundation Course: studies drawing.
Works through the South Coast Period of paintings. Studio: South Coast of England.
1974-81 University of Wales: studied painting under Welsh artist Selwyn Jones. Public and private commissions: twenty-five multistory murals in Wales and England: documented by the BBC and British National Newspapers. Studios: Bethesda and Bangor City, Wales. Studies composition and portraiture. Shows at the Royal Exchange, London; Bangor City Museum, Wales.
1981-82 Commission: The Trial of Saint Deiniol: 19-panel, 18 x 21 ft. painting. Studio: Shropshire, England
1982-86 The New York Times send photographer Dith Pran (on whom the movie The Killing Fields was based) to photograph Povey in New York with The Trial of Saint Deiniol painting at Art Expo New York 1986. Povey is advised by George Bush Senior’s former campaign manager Zena Temkin on shaping his public persona. The BBC film Edward Povey with former President of the Royal Academy of Art in London - Sir Hugh Casson KCVO, RA, RDI in which Sir Hugh interviews Povey about his art career. Public and private commissions for collections in the United States, London, Wales, Belgium, West Indies. Studies symbolism and trains in color with Jan de Maere in Brussels and works through the Tapestry Period of paintings Studio: Grenada, West Indies.
1987-91 Studies psychology and narrative in art whilst he builds the extensive Childhood, Illusion and Desire Period of paintings. Studio: Guisborough, England courtesy of the town mayor. Shows in Belgium, London, New York.
1992-93 Public commission: Hall of Illusion mural: 20 X 40 ft. interior oil painting in the Chamber Concert Hall of the University of Wales. The commission is followed by BBC Television, S4C Television; BBC Radio Four and regional and national newspapers. Studios: Guisborough, England; Bangor City, Wales. Designs the Hall of Illusion mural on the island of Grenada, West Indies.
1994-96 Deepens his studies in the relationship between art and the psyche. Researches new ways to evolve concepts with models using theaters...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Atlanta - Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Surrealist Geometric Variation Colors Drawings, France 1960s
Located in Atlanta, GA
These exceptional original drawings, painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, were designed by a French artist, circa the 1960s. The two rare paintings feature a geo...
Category
1960s Surrealist Atlanta - Art
Materials
Paper
The Bathers, Wood-Engraving Drawing Lithograph by John Buckland-Wright
By John Buckland-Wright
Located in Atlanta, GA
John Buckland-Wright, "Baigneuses" – Elegant Lithograph Print
This stunning lithograph print by acclaimed British artist John Buckland-Wright (1897–1954) showcases his remarkable com...
Category
1930s Art Deco Atlanta - Art
Materials
Ink, Paper
The Mad Puppeteer as Don Giovanni, 1988
By Robert Jessup
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
Veuve Art Collage by Amy Dixon, Abstract Still Life Acrylic on Canvas Painting
By Amy Dixon
Located in Atlanta, GA
'Veuve Art Collage' is a large abstracted acrylic on canvas painting of square format, created by American artist Amy Dixon in 2021. Featuring a vibrant pale...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Atlanta - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Finger Creature Breasts Head Hat
By Robert Jessup
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has been exhibited extensively since 1981 and is in numerous private and public collections including the metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the University of Virginia, the University of Texas, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. He is a Professor Emeritus from the University of North Texas where he taught painting in the College of Visual Arts and Design from 1991 to 2018. His work is represented by the Conduit Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
Whiskey Tango
Located in Atlanta, GA
Scott French has over 30 years of painting experience. His work focuses on figures, landscapes, and recently, cocktails. Known for his painterly and expressive style, French uses ric...
Category
2010s Land Atlanta - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No Work Today Screenprint Abstract Figurative Signed and Numbered Pop Art
By Piet Parra 1
Located in Draper, UT
Parra
"No Work Today"
Signed limited edition screenprint (x/250)
50 cm x 70 cm
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Abstract Atlanta - Art
Materials
Screen
Enduring Beauty Marilyn Monroe by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
LIMITED EDITION PRINT - Edition of 75 signed by the artist.
Price for unframed.
Ask us for custom framing options for this piece.
Craig Alan is a Pop Surrealist, internationally rec...
Category
2010s Pop Art Atlanta - Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Intent
By Eileen Braun
Located in Atlanta, GA
Eileen Braun delights in creating biomorphic or organic sculptural forms. Although they may look as though they're constructed of metal rods, they're actually created from rattan ree...
Category
2010s Abstract Atlanta - Art
Materials
Rubber, Mixed Media
$3,300
Shiva
By Nebojsa BEZANIC
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in 1964, Nebojsa Bezanic was predominantly influenced by the 1980s. The generation of artists that grew up in, and took inspiration from, the nineteen eighties was influenced by a period of quickly growing global capitalism, political upheaval, significant wealth discrepancy, global mass media and distinctive music and fashion, including electronic pop music and hip hop. The 1980s was the era of African famine, the height of the Cold War, and also the end of it, as marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall. significant art movements of the era include Neo Geo, The Pictures Generation and the global trend of Neo-Expressionism which manifested in Germany, the USA and Italy (where it was known as Transavanguardia). The decade was exemplified by artists like Anselm Kiefer, Jörg Immendorf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Ink
$23,400
Twins
By Edward Povey
Located in Atlanta, GA
1972-73 Eastbourne College for Art and Design: Fine Art Foundation Course: studies drawing.
Works through the South Coast Period of paintings. Studio: South Coast of England.
1974-8...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
$53,300
"Bedside Bear", 1998
By Robert Jessup
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
Landscape with Trees
By Louis Aston Knight
Located in Atlanta, GA
Louis Aston Knight, was the son of the American expatriate artist, Daniel Ridgway Knight. Born in Paris in 1873, Louis, unlike his father, had the privilege to be brought up in a home where he was surrounded by art and music. Raised and educated in Europe, Louis attended the Chigwell School in England for his Liberal Arts Education and began his artistic training, under the guidance of his father. Later he studied formally with the great French Romantic painters, Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre.
In 1894 Aston Knight debuted at the Paris Salon, starting a highly acclaimed career. Among his many awards, he won a Bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900, an honorable mention at the Paris Salon in 1901, a gold medal in Lyon in 1903, a gold medal in Geneva and in Nantes in 1904 and Gold medals at the Paris Salon in both 1905 and 1906, earning him the title Hors concours as the first American to win two gold medals at the Salon in two consecutive years. Knight, was also made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1924 becoming an Officer in 1928 and eventually a Commander in 1934.
Louis Aston Knight is most famous for his French landscapes executed in and around his home in Beaumont-le-Roger. Aston looked up to Claude Monet, and visited him from time to time at his home in Giverny. He was particularly impressed with Monet's gardens, and strove to cultivate a garden as beautiful as the master's. Knight also awarded prizes each year to the neighboring peasants who kept the nicest gardens. This ensured him of good models for his cottage landscape paintings.
Gradually Aston Knight became well known in the New York art scene and traveled to the United States many times – painting scenes in New York, Florida and California. In 1911, Knoedler and Co. held an exhibition of his landscapes of the U.S.A. and France. His exhibition at the Levy Gallery in New York, in 1931 attracted much attention. In fact, "Art News" critiqued the show (26 December issue) and described his fame and plein-air approach:
A group of new landscapes by Aston Knight, the popular painter of the Normandy Riverscape, is the Holiday attraction at the Levy Gallery. Mr. Knight sticks closely to his well established formula, doubtless due to the tremendous acclaim acquired in his earlier years when Hopkinson Smith...
Category
19th Century Realist Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
Paris, Faubourg du Temple, 1926, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. Paris, Faubourg du Temple, view of one of the numerous cafés in Paris, 1926.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Print Pho...
Category
1920s Art Deco Atlanta - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
French Poster Study Aviation Illustration Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a rare original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France, 20th Century). The modernist composition s...
Category
1940s Post-War Atlanta - Art
Materials
Paper
Geometric Multicolor Surrealist Drawings, France 1960s
Located in Atlanta, GA
These exceptional original drawings, painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, were designed by a French artist, circa the 1960s. The two rare paintings feature a geo...
Category
1960s Surrealist Atlanta - Art
Materials
Paper
Partners Together, 2007
By Robert Jessup
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
L'incubo freddo, 2010
By Gigino Falconi
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Atlanta - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Hot Feet by Craig Alan Limited Edition Signed Print
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
LIMITED EDITION PRINT - Edition of 75 signed by the artist.
Price for unframed.
Ask us for custom framing options for this piece.
Craig Alan is a Pop Surrealist, internationally rec...
Category
2010s Pop Art Atlanta - Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Georgia Pacific Building, Atlanta, GA" drone, cityscape, composite, reflection
By Peter Essick
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Georgia Pacific Building, Atlanta, GA X54" is a drone photograph featuring blue and yellow colors. This listing is for an unframed photograph.
This photograph is available in addit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Atlanta - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Unlocking Spiritual Mysteries
By Tolla Inbar
Located in Atlanta, GA
Tolla Inbar is an international sculpture artist. Born in Germany in 1958, Tolla attended the Merz school in Stuttgart until 1971. There she specializing in the art of ceramics and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Bronze
Hush David Bowie by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
LIMITED EDITION PRINT - Edition of 75 signed by the artist.
Price for unframed.
Ask us for custom framing options for this piece.
Craig Alan is a Pop Surrealist, internationally rec...
Category
2010s Pop Art Atlanta - Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Acrobat on Horse, I
Located in Atlanta, GA
Statement "These topics have excited my imagination and established for me an almost mystical foundation for painterly expression. Their poetic symbolism represents and parallels cer...
Category
2010s Atlanta - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Resting in Waters by Anne Darby Parker, Cubist Figure Oil on Canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
Resting in Waters by Anne Darby Parker is a serene 48 x 36 inch acrylic on canvas that captures a quiet, introspective moment through fluid brushwork and soft, layered color. Parker’...
Category
2010s Contemporary Atlanta - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Where Nothing At All Needs Saying
By Deedra Ludwig
Located in Atlanta, GA
Rather than re-creating a literal landscape on canvas or paper, I aim to express its essence in a rich and complex form of delicately painted organic subjects that float and trail ac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Atlanta - Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Gesturing gardner with watering can, 1983
By Steven Campbell
Located in Atlanta, GA
Steven Campbell was a Scottish artist who created complex and humorous paintings with roots in performance and installation art. Campbell graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1982 and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute in New York the same year. The artist rapidly gained recognition in America, and after a successful period abroad returned to Glasgow in 1987. He remained in Scotland for the rest of his career, developing his position as a link between Scottish artists of the previous generation, and the emerging artists of the 1990s.
Before studying at Glasgow School of Art Campbell was an engineer at the steelworks on the outskirts of Glasgow. After seven years at the steelworks he decided to pursue art. At Glasgow School of Art he was a contemporary of Ken Currie, Peter Howson and Adrian Wiszniewski...
Category
20th Century Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil, Paper
Cheval
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Melun in 1957, Jager is a French sculptor and painter. Passionate about equitation, he is famous for making representations of horses in plaster and bronze in all their forms. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon and is currently living in France. Rather than just being an artist, he describes himself as a dreamer: unpredictable and passionate. For Frédéric JAGER, beauty is a must. His style, classic, figurative, is stunning in this world of contemporary art. Bringing bronze to life, his works always capture the energy and beauty of the horse “Because unlike men, a horse is always beautiful, always strong, always sad.”
Several large companies, such as HERMES, NINA RICCI, goldsmith MELLERIO, CHEVIGNON, SOCIETE GENERALE, HORSE WOOD, watches PEQUIGNET, SWEATERIE, have called upon him for sculptures, decorative objects, advertising works, or trophies for the races.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions, and has also participated in a myraid of art fairs such as the ‘Salon International de Saumur’, the Animal Sculpture Biennale of Rambouillet, the Derby Horse in Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Bronze
$39,000
Neighborhood Geometry
By Robert Jessup
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
Bottoms Up, Buttercup by Dawne Raulet Contemporary Mixed Media, Goose, Black
By Dawne Raulet
Located in Atlanta, GA
Bottoms Up, Buttercup by Dawne Raulet is a striking mixed media painting on board that brings a modern twist to animal portraiture. Starting with a photographic base, Raulet transfor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Atlanta - Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Leggerezza I
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My passion for the vestiges of aged surfaces that inspires my painting has been influenced by my travels in Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Russia, and Sweden." --...
Category
2010s Abstract Atlanta - Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Ballon YO Green
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Iron
USS Roosevelt, New York Navy Day 1945, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography Framed
By Associated Press
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Associated Press Photo.
The USS Roosevelt aircraft carriers on the Hudson River, New York, during Navy Day in 1945.
Features...
Category
1940s Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Rail Freight Station in Wales, England 1930 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
By Wide World Photos
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by the press agency Wide World Photos - New York Times in Paris. This is a view of a railroad freight station in Wales, En...
Category
1930s Art Deco Atlanta - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Falling Couple, 2006
By Robert Jessup
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
Afternoon Sun
Located in Atlanta, GA
My floral paintings consider the same elements as when painting an abstract painting. I put paint on the canvas and push and pull with the paint: addressing value, color, shape and m...
Category
2010s Atlanta - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Chiaroscuro Landscape, Oil on Canvas Painting by Francois Gentilini
Located in Atlanta, GA
This beautiful oil-on-canvas painting was created by Francois Gentilini (1930 -). This is a small-scale oil painting by the well-listed French Modern painter Francois Gentilini. The ...
Category
1970s Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Zeta
By Jacques LE BESCOND 1
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jacques LE BESCOND (born in CAEN in 1945) was young when he started to sculpture. He was particularly fond of wood. His encounter with a craftsman w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Bronze
$16,900
American Flag
By Carlos Tirado
Located in Atlanta, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. Wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
Home Again
Located in Atlanta, GA
My floral paintings consider the same elements as when painting an abstract painting. I put paint on the canvas and push and pull with the paint: addressing value, color, shape and m...
Category
2010s Atlanta - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,850
French Art Deco Original Gouache Illustration Drawing by Raymonde Hacker
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Art Deco illustrative drawing, hand painted in ink and gouache on blue laid paper. The design includes a collection of fashion accessories, handbags, gloves, hats, and perfu...
Category
1930s Art Deco Atlanta - Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
La Mer Melee au Soleil, 2009
By Antoni TAULÉ
Located in Atlanta, GA
Taulé was born in 1945 in Sabadell, Barcelona. His father imparted the taste for painting to Antoni as a boy as the young artist watched him paint. After his primary studies, he began studying architecture in Barcelona and graduated in 1970. In 1965, he arrived in Paris and worked in architectural firms. It was Sartre's Paris, the construction of Unesco, the year of Le Corbusier's death and the end of Chandigarh, the French Cinematheque and Antonioni's films. Since the age of 14, he has never stopped painting and made his first personal exhibition in 1966 at the Academie de Belles Arts in Sabadell.
Upon receiving his degree in architecture, he worked on the construction of l’Université autonome de Barcelone for a year. In 1971, he was asked to work on the development of a large shipyard on the small island of Formentera. There he met Laetitia Ney of Elchingen, who he would go on to marry. He devoted himself entirely to painting, and Formentera, like Paris, became one of his favorite places in both his life and to work.
His first exhibition in Paris was in 1975 with Mathias Fels, presented to him by Hervé Télémaque—showing many paintings of his young daughter Djamilla, then three years old. The exhibition was titled, Espace hors temps (Space out of Time), with a foreword by Alain Jouffroy. In 1976, Taulé exhibited Contre-Jour (Against Day) at Fabien Boulakia on rue Bonaparte with a preface by Gérald Gassiot-Talabot and in Barcelona at the Aimé Maeght gallery—an exhibition visited by Joan Miró and Alexander Calder. In 1977, he exhibited at the Beaubourg gallery, with then associates Nahon and Trigano. In 1983, he met Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, who wrote the novella Fin d’étape (End of Stage) for Taulé That same year, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by Jack Lang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
Place du Combat, Paris circa 1930, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
By Press Photo
Located in Atlanta, GA
An extraordinary original silver gelatin black-and-white photograph capturing the energy of Place du Combat in Paris, France, circa 1930. This dynamic street scene offers a glimpse i...
Category
1930s Art Deco Atlanta - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Loose Change by Laura McCarty, Large Framed Contemporary Abstract Canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
The framed price is listed. UNFRAMED this piece measures 40"H x 40"W.
With layered washes of green and blue, Loose Change by Laura McCarty channels a fr...
Category
2010s Abstract Atlanta - Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Paris, Decorative Art Exhibition 1925, Barge on the Seine, B and W Photography
By Press Photo
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exceptional original silver gelatin black-and-white photograph capturing the International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, October 1925. Floating on the Seine River, the "Bel...
Category
1920s Art Deco Atlanta - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot by Robert Cohen for AGIP - Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
By Robert Cohen
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Robert Cohen for AGIP. Brigitte Bardot in 1967.
Features:
Original silver gelatin print photograph unframed.
Press photograph...
Category
1960s Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Liminal 001
Located in Atlanta, GA
Carl Linstrum's "Other Side" series of paintings speak to disappearing ecosystems in a time of increasing climate crises, while celebrating the sheer beauty of nature through richly ...
Category
2010s Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,350
Paris, Decorative Art Exhibition 1925 The Ruhlmann Pavilion, B and W Photography
By Press Photo
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exceptional original silver gelatin black-and-white photograph from Press Agency, Paris, 1925, capturing a striking view of the International Decorative Arts Exhibition in October...
Category
1920s Art Deco Atlanta - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dasha
By Joyce Tenneson
Located in Atlanta, GA
Joyce Tenneson is an accomplished American photographer best known for her mystical and sensual photographs of the female form. At once haunting, enigma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Polaroid
$8,580
untitled, 2019
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jacopo Scassellati was born in Sassari (Sardinia) in 1989 where he still resides today. His family is originally from Umbria. Very early on, he disp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Atlanta - Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Stalactite Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
Louis Durot was born in Paris on April 22, 1939. He was something of an enfant terrible, and managed to be expelled from various schools for bad conduct. His ambition, as stated to his parents, was to earn money without having to work, and for a time, he was an “escort-boy” for a Parisian Grande Dame. He did, however, manage to get a good education in spite of himself, and received his Baccalaureate degree from Lycee Louis Pasteur in 1956.
In 1960, he enrolled in the Facultie de Sciences, where he studied mathematics. He terminated his math studies in 1963, and turned his attention to engineering, working for Equipel, where he was responsible for calculating and measuring resistance for prototype nuclear generators. Equipel became a research facility, and offered Durot the opportunity to study organic chemistry.
Durot directed numerous research projects for Equipel between 1966 and 1972. During this time, in fact, starting in 1964, he made many friends in the art world, gathering together artists from a variety of disciplines to form an artists commune — the Freelane Studio. Among the members were jazz journalist Gilles Brinnon, and a young painter, Jean Ihallero — a friend of the painter Maxime Defert.
Through them, he met the artist Francois Arnal, who was interested in Durots’ engineering expertise for his sculptures. They got on well, and worked together for two years. Also in this circle were the actress Micheline Presle and the actor Daniel Gelin. In 1968, Arnal and Presle created Le Festival de Theatre de Chateauvallon, and through this, Durot became friends with the noted film director Ulysse Reynaud.
In 1966, Francois Arnal introduced Durot to the artist Cesar, with the idea that Durot’s talents as a chemical engineer would be useful. Durot spent a year helping Cesar to master the techniques of working with polyurethane foam, with Durot searching for ways to make this fragile and ephemeral substance more stable and permanent, and more amenable to control. Cesars’ first works in this medium were flat, due to the difficulty of controlling the foam, but he went on to create his famous “expansions”.
In 1968, Durot conceived a project to create more three-dimensional sculptures following a simple and precise design. It was during this time that Durot made his first polyurethane sculptures — the Champignons and Plantes Carnivores. Also in 1968, he He opened his first technical studio at 35, rue Leon.
In order to support this new endeavor,( he needed more space, equipment, time and money), he created La Societe Durgalith. 1971 saw the Durat’s first works exhibited at the Salon Batimat in Paris. With this exhibition, Durot was hoping to attract the attention of architects with whom he could collaborate.
Between 1971 and 1974, Durot created sixty sculptures inspired by fantastical “alien” life, mushrooms, and carnivorous plants. In 1974, Durot”s Societie Durgalith ran into problems with the Italian firm that owned Batimat. Credit Lyonnaise seized his studio and many of his sculptures, and quite a number of them were destroyed. This same year, Durot worked with the architects Sloan and Lecouter on an inflatable structure for the Pavillion Franaise in Osaka. Unfortunately, the project was never realized.
Durot continued to pursue his research on polyurethanes, and gained world-wide recognition for his developments in this field. In 1977, a “student prank” had un-expectedly bad consequences. Durot was employed as an engineer at L’Usine Francaise de la Monnaie (the French mint) in Pessac. He took three kilos of “blanks”, and used them for playing slot-machines. For this, he spent seven weeks in jail, which was ended by an amnesty granted by Mitterand in 1981. During Durot’s time in prison, he took up weight-lifting, and also designed his next generation of sculptures. The spirals, feet, lips, and a series of erotic chairs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Atlanta - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
$32,500
"Loblolly Pine #1, Decatur, GA" Anthropocene landscape photography - Ray Metzker
By Peter Essick
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Loblolly Pine #1, Decatur, GA" is a nocturne photograph of an urban tree featuring hues of blue, green, orange and purple. This listing is for a framed print. Additional unframed si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Atlanta - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Les élèves, 2022
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in 1961, Alexej Ravski exhibits in France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, the United States, Belarus and his native Russia.
Alexej’s painting i...
Category
2010s Atlanta - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lover's Settee by Amy Dixon, Abstract Still Life Interior Canvas Painting
By Amy Dixon
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Lover’s Settee" by Amy Dixon – Romantic Interior Painting with Chandelier, Mixed Media on Canvas, 12x9 in
Infuse your space with charm and sophistication through Lover’s Settee, a 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Atlanta - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jean-Louis Mendrisse is a self-taught painter born in 1955 in Clermont-Ferrand.
Art, family affairs
Jean-Louis Mendrisse studied the deal with his famous sculptor father, Jean Mos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
Barge Boats near Paris, France 1926, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. In the eastern suburb of Paris, France, in June 1926.
A view of the canal with its barge boats in Charenton le Pont, an...
Category
1920s Art Deco Atlanta - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Day Dreamer
Located in Atlanta, GA
Abstract artist Paul Light Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1966. Before earning his MFA in painting at SCAD-Atlanta in 2012, Light had an extensive business career where he fueled his creative side as a graphic artist, and product designer. It was in these years that he met and was mentored and greatly influenced by Paul Chelko...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil
$2,600
Do not go gentle
By Behzad Tabar
Located in Atlanta, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Atlanta - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Faubourg du Temple in Paris, 1926, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. The rue du Faubourg du Temple, view of one of the busiest streets in Paris, in 1926.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Pr...
Category
1920s Art Deco Atlanta - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Donna, 2018
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jacopo Scassellati was born in Sassari (Sardinia) in 1989 where he still resides today. His family is originally from Umbria. Very early on, he disp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Atlanta - Art
Materials
Oil, Wood