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Item Ships From: Bay Area
California Mono - large photograph of infinite monochromatic desert landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
From a series of photographs capturing the Golden State's vast monochromatic desert landscapes on a moody autumn day in the American West
40 x 40 inches ( 102 x 102cm)
edition of 7...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Subway no. 1 - Beijing
Located in Burlingame, CA
BING ZHANG's Subway no. 1, 36 x 48 inches, oil on canvas. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Bing Zhang’s Subway painting series explores themes of class, labo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Elderly Couple
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a timeless expression of social realism, in the style of the late American artist Ben Shahn. You sense the couple has shared a lifetime. Still standing close together, th...
Category
1960s Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,250
EMDL-1
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.”
Bill Kane...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
$8,635
EM2020-59
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on watercolor paper - Unframed.
Edition of 10.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Ea...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Paper, Pigment
$1,028
Doctor's Office
By Lee Dubin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Doctor's Office" 1976 is a color lithograph by American artist Lee Dubin, b.1933. It is hand signed and numbered 106/200 in pencil by the artist. The image size ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mini Nail #2
By David Tanych
Located in Napa, CA
David Tanych has been building objects since his father gave him a saw, hammer, nails and a block of wood at the age of 10.
A veteran home and furniture builder, David turned his in...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Art
Materials
Steel
$1,500
"Canyon de Chelly, Tower of Rock" (2024) By Billyo O'Donnell, Oil Landscape
By Billyo O'Donnell
Located in Denver, CO
"Canyon de Chelly, Tower of Rock" (2024) is a beautiful original impressionist oil landscape done by Billyo O'Donnell. This painting measures 21.5 x 17.5 inches framed and is ready t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Songs of Songs of King Salomons
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Teo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012)
Title: "The Songs of Songs of King Solomons"
Year: 1975
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Numbered LVII/C in pencil
Paper: Jap...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Winter Woods, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 30 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
The moody scene of a shady bend in a forest path was captured at dawn on a winter's day. The sky is beginning to brighten. The tall narrow format accentuates the height of the tower...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Great Snipe Birds: A 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
By John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Gallinago Major" (Great Snipe) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Great Britain", published in London in 1862-1879...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape with Farm House in Winter
By Charles Frederick Surendorf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Farm House in Winter" c.1950, is a oil painting on hardboard by noted California artist Charles Frederick Surendorf, 1906-1979. It is signed at the lower...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Yellow tulips in a tall vase 1
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Yellow tulips in a tall vase 1' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
River 4
By Liz Barber
Located in Napa, CA
Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
$7,200
Landscape
By Richard Peterson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape" 1991 is an oil on board by noted artist Richard Peterson, born 1947. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The board size is 24 x 3...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Two Hearted Oak, California
By Roman Loranc
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by the artist.
Framed by the gallery upon purchase.
Edition 17/50
Sold out negative/ Retired negative.
Print Date 2001
Excellent Condition
Category
Early 2000s Bay Area - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$5,000 Sale Price
50% Off
Brian Blood 'Monterey Bay' Plein Air California Impressionist Seascape Painting
By Brian Blood
Located in San Rafael, CA
Brian Blood (American, b. 1962)
Monterey Bay, 2000
Oil on canvas board
Signed lower right: BB signed, dated, and titled verso: Brian Blood, 2000 Monterey Bay
9in H x 12in L
In a silvered gilt frame with linen mat and moulding: 17 1/4in H x 20in L
Brian Blood is a resident of Pebble Beach, California. He began his professional life as a graphic artist and art director in Boston, Massachusetts. He then came to California to attend the Academy of Art College in San Francisco for both undergraduate and graduate studies. In 2003, Blood and his artist wife, Laurie Kersey...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Different But Not Less
By Stephen Namara
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stephen Namara's work is a testament to technical mastery and emotional depth. His artistic execution showcases a level of skill that is both rare and commanding. His ability to rend...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Crayon
Tabletop 3d metal sculpture -- iron wire, circular, recycled metal plaque
Located in San Francisco, CA
In this exquisitely soldered 3d metal sculpture, Juliette Frescaline captures the movement of grasses growing over a man-made recycled plaque. Nature takes over in this cleverly titl...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Art
Materials
Metal, Iron
"Dam Construction" Rare large colors etching.
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Dam Construction" c.1920 is a very rare large original colors etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed and numbered 27/100 in pencil by the...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Etching
Un Vase de Fleurs (Flowers in a Vase)
By Frederic Menguy
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Un Vase de Fleurs (Flowers in a Vase)" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on watermarked Arches paper by noted French artist Frederic Menguy, 1927-2007. It is han...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Belgian Landscape II
By Gustav Pynaert
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Belgian Landscape" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas board by Belgian artist Gustav Pynaert, 1900-1968. It is signed at the lower lef...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Stratosphere IV - large format photograph of abstract liquid water cloudscapes
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the bo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
The Timeless Allure of the “Javanese Dancer”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Unsurprisingly, she was much admired when exhibited by artist Luis Cutron at the noted Laguna Beach Art Association, today’s Laguna Art Museum in coastal Southern California. Exotic ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Haitian Country Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Haitian artist Jacksin Mésidor painted this from his Caribbean coastal hometown of Cap-Haitien in the north of his native land. As Haitian folk art, the painting delivers an archityp...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Bay Area - Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Next Sign - large format landscape photograph with conceptual road sign
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Next Sign by Frank Schott
from a series of works capturing conceptual roadside signs in iconic American landscapes
captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
$3,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Belvedere
By Robert Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Belvedere" c. 1970 is a color etching on wove paper by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower center by the ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Etching
Leather woven artwork with orange blue color gradient
Located in San Francisco, CA
"I've Dreamed in Colors #5" by Cécilia Lusven is handwoven from linen and off-cut leathers. Lusven's signature style involves hand-cutting the leather s...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Leather, Linen
Seebenstein Castle Courtyard, Austria, large color etching
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Seebenstein Castle, Austria" 1920 is a color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 15.75 x 22.25 inches, the sheet size is 23.25 x 29.5 inches. with full margin. it is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand.
Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Etching
Sentinel (Midcentury Modern)
By Brooks Anderson
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sentinel (Midcentury Modern)' - oil on canvas is 36 x 48 inches, meticulously painted by American Realist Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris, Le Chatelet
By Urbain Huchet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Paris, Le Chatelet" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by French artist Urbain Huchet, 1930-2014. It is hand signed and numbered 175/250 i...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Parallel
By Dan Corbin
Located in Napa, CA
Cast bronze & Oxide Patina
Dan Corbin's sculptures are a convergence of conceptualism and the human figure, illuminating what it feels like to be alive during current times, with all its beauty, complexity, contradictions, and possibilities. The artist’s sculptures address issues of contemporary society - materialism, industrialization and cultural change - while simultaneously referring to a wide range of human emotions. His sculptures lift the spirit while questioning what it is to be human. In Corbin’s archetype of man, intellect and soul are separate from the body. Armless, headless, anonymous cores can now be broken down to the smallest units, analyzed, engineered, beautified, and commodified.
Corbin’s articulation of figurative sculpture takes iconography of the present and embeds it in the surface of his sculptures. He calls these miniature time capsules ‘inclusions’. Objects like cosmetic bottles, action figures, dolls, and feeder fish are sealed in resin and strategically embedded throughout the body. With these ‘inclusions’ the figure becomes a technologically enhanced vessel. The human body is no longer a container for a perfect being, handed down by god or evolution, but an aesthetically enhanced harbinger of a new era. In combination with the ‘inclusions’ Corbin uses a multitude of industrial materials, emphasizing the intrinsic value and physical properties of each. Each surface becomes fully charged with content, primed for multiple interpretations.
Dan Corbin has been included in notable exhibitions at galleries and institutions including the Museum of Northern California Art...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Art
Materials
Bronze
$22,000
Femme en Rouge (Woman in Red) II
By Emile Bellet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Femme en Rouge II" (Woman in Red) is a original color lithograph on Wove paper by French artist Emile Bellet, born 1941 It is hand signed and numbered 92/450 in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Slim Aarons 'Truman Capote at Home' Photograph Print by Getty
By Slim Aarons
Located in San Rafael, CA
We are an authorized Getty Images Gallery Partner.
Slim Aarons (American, 1916-1016)
Capote at Home
C-type print on Fujicolor Cyrstal archival paper
Full sheet with margins
With em...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
C Print
Shadows
By Virgil Trasher
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Shadows" 1987 in an original color serigraph by American artist Virgil Trasher b.1943. It is hand signed, dated, inscribed A.P and titled in pencil by the artist. The image size is 20 x 16 inches, sheet size is 28 x 20 inches. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Virgil Thrasher...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Screen
Spring Clover I (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 14 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow blue and white monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual flowers of fresh-cut Dutch clover growing wild. This unique print is the same size as ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Hong Kong Skyline at Night, Original Cityscape Photography, 2017
By William Mackie
Located in Boston, MA
Hong Kong Skyline at Night, Original Cityscape Photography, 2017
19" x 10"
Artist Commentary:
Hong Kong must be experienced to be believed. Growing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Halloween
Located in Burlingame, CA
Halloween - an iconic American painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torlakson’s photorealism subj...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Heinrich Tupke Impressionist Polish Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Heinrich Tupke:1876-1951. Listed Polish artist with auction results over $2200. This impressionist gem of a Polish landscape is an oil on canvas measuring 17 inches wide by 15 high. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Salmon Lake / oil on canvas 52 x 80 inches
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Salmon Lake' features big rocks, sunlight on clear blue water, tall trees and fresh mountain air by American Realist Peter Loftus who is known for captivating color-rich and picture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Chippeway Widow: An Original 19th C. Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Lithograph
By McKenney & Hall
Located in Alamo, CA
This an original 19th century hand colored McKenney and Hall Lithograph of a Native American entitled "A Chippeway Widow, No. 64", published by Rice, Rutter & Co. in 1865.
Her name ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Under Pressure AP
By Amanda & Björn Sjöling
Located in Napa, CA
Bjorn Sjoling has worked in many mediums, including oil painting, stained glass, wrought iron design and traditional sculpture. With a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Sjoling is fascinated by mechanics and possesses an uncanny aptitude for understanding and manipulating the mechanical world. He is drawn to the hidden workings of the human body, and of this, the Remains to be Seen collaborative series was born.
Remains to be Seen is created in close conjunction with his wife and artistic partner, Amanda Sjoling. The series peels away the external layers of our corporal bodies to showcase the beauty of the mechanical framework of skeletons. These expressive and humorous figures, cast in the traditional lost wax process, are life-size and completely anatomically correct limited edition works. The Sjoling team aims to create such quality bronze works that they present just as well from a distance as they do upon close examination. The works are both nobody and everybody at the same time through their lack of external characteristics. The Sjoling team aims to facilitate the viewer’s thoughts through such expansive and intricate topics as love, vanishing consumerism and greed, and life and death by offering the observer a universal portrait and a profound dichotomy that is so simple that it is obvious.
Sjoling currently works out of the United Kingdom and ÆRENA Galleries...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Art
Materials
Bronze
Colorado winter landscape original oil painting large-scale
Located in San Francisco, CA
This original oil painting captures the breathtaking beauty of a mountain view from Vail, Colorado, in the heart of the Rockies. The artwork is an interplay of abstract textures and ...
Category
2010s Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
The Windmill
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Windmill" 1641 is an etching on paper After Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669, plate engraved By French renown engraver Charles Armand Durand, 1831-1905. Signatu...
Category
17th Century Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Etching
Robert Rauschenberg 'Earth Day' Limited Edition, Signed Lithograph Print
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in San Rafael, CA
This listing is for the limited edition lithograph, not the mass produced poster.
Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008)
Earth Day, 1970
Lithograph with chine collé
Signed, dated, numbered by the artist
Edition 11/50,
Full sheet: 52 1/2 x 37 1/2 in.
With mat: approx 55 x 40 in
Published by the American Environment Foundation
Printed by Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles, with blindstamp to lower center
Catalog Raisonné: RRF 70.E016
Provenance: Butterfield & Butterfield (now Bonhams) Lot 3115, sale 5367L February, 24, 1993
This Robert Rauschenberg lithograph...
Category
1970s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Portugal: A Large 17th Century Hand-colored Map by Sanson and Jaillot
By Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville
Located in Alamo, CA
This large hand-colored map entitled "Le Royaume de Portugal et des Algarves Divisee en see Archeveches, Eveches et Territoires Par le Sr Sanson" was originally created by Nicholas S...
Category
1690s Bay Area - Art
Materials
Engraving
Estampas Del Popol Vuh
By Carlos Mérida
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Carlos Merida (Guatemalan, 1891-1984)
Title: Estampas Del Popol Vuh
Year: 1943
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Unumbered of 1000
Paper: Wove
...
Category
1840s Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Man of Action
Located in San Francisco, CA
Here’s a man’s life in three volumes. In paint. On one canvas. And what a life! On the left, Volume 1, the labor movement against the monopolizing “Octopus” railroads and smoke-stack...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Start of Something Good
Located in San Francisco, CA
This is an abstract landscape created by Javier Manrique in 2022. A landscape is a reading of the physical characteristics and aesthetics of the geogra...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
White Weasel Sloat: An Original 19th Century Hand-colored Lithograph by Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "White Weasel Slout, No. 12, Plate LIX" from John James Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America, published in Ph...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Florida Rat Family: An Original 19th Century Hand-colored Lithograph by Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Florida Rat", No. 1, Plate IV", from John James Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America, published in Philadelp...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Spring Rhododendron II (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
L'efant aux biscuit (Child with Cookie)
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Palo Alto, CA
An intimate portrait of his second son, Jean Renoir (1894 – 1979), evokes a childlike sentiment and love that Renoir had for his children. Most likely no more than age 3, Jean is shown here with a cookie, beneath a frilly bonnet characteristic of late 19th century French society. His pink, rosy cheeks are defined with rich, glowing hues that contrast from the pale yellow and grey background in which he rests. Jean was also featured in a family portrait of the Renoirs, titled La Famille de l’Artiste (1896).
Created in 1899, this Color Lithograph on Cream Laid Paper is from the edition of 100, from the unpublishedL’Album d’estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard; printed by Auguste Clot, Paris.
Catalogue Raisonné:
It is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work):
1. Delteil, Loys. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, l’œuvre grave...
Category
1890s Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
$12,300 Sale Price
40% Off
Louis SCHANKER “Jai Alai”
By Louis Schanker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Louis Schanker : 1903-1981. Well, listed American abstract artist. He was well exhibited and is in the permanent collections of many important museums. This fabulous piece is a color...
Category
1930s Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled (Fantastic Scene)
By Michael Bowen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled, Fantastic Scene" c.1975 is an original color etching with aquatint on wove paper by American surrealist artist Michael Bowen, 1937-2009. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 14.85 x 18 inches, sheet size is 21.5 x 26 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the subject:
Nowhere is the intertwining of metaphysical, biographic and social narratives more evident than in the Café Life series painted in the 1980’s. Though the “series” was done in the 80’s, the pieces really revive the spirit of the Beat café scene, which began in the mid-1950’s and which was so instrumental to the particular spiritual and social vibe of the counter culture. And his Café Life observations continue over his artist life with scenes, such as the ones here, from Los Angles, Bolinas, Mexico and Italy.
About the artist:
Michael Bowen (December 8, 1937 – March 7, 2009) was an American fine artist known as one of the co-founders of the late 20th and 21st century Visionary art movements. His works include paintings on canvas and paper, 92 intaglio etchings based on Jungian psychology, assemblage, bronze sculpture, collage, and handmade art books. An icon of the American Beat Generation and the 1960s counterculture, Bowen is also known for his role in inspiring and organizing the first Human Be-In in San Francisco. Chronicled in books and periodicals reflecting on the turbulent 1960s, Bowen's historical impact on both the literary and visual art worlds is well documented. He remains influential among avant-garde art circles around the world. He started his art career at age 17, when he joined the American installation artist Ed Kienholz in his Los Angeles studio. There he met and joined with other influential Beat Generation artists including Wallace Berman, John Altoon, and Dennis Hopper. Bowen participated in the construction of the Ferus Gallery and Now Gallery created by Ed Kienholz and curated by Walter Hopps. Bowen attended the Chouinard Art Institute for several years during his formative artistic experiences in Los Angeles. In the late 50s and early 60s, Bowen continued his spiritual training and research. He investigated and practiced a variety of occult topics, Eastern philosophies, and mysticism, and his artwork reflected these themes. Bowen is often referred to as a mystic artist. As a lifelong student of the Bhagavad-Gita, Bowen's entire career has emulated the spiritual warrior archetype of Arjuna, fighting for the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution. Michael Bowen moved to San Francisco in the late 1950s, and along with fellow artist comrades Arthur Monroe...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
SF Symphony Still Life #4
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'SF Symphony Still Life #4' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size.
Internationally exhibited and celebrated worldwide, Bukovnik’s iconic works express a spiritual exultation - a joie de vivre - a vivid celebration of beauty. The painting captures the season of nature’s rebirth when the world awakes from its winter repose — Forever Spring...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rough Sea in California Coast
By Lydia Vercinsky
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Rough Sea" c.1980, is an oil painting on canvas by noted Chinese/American artist Lydia Vercinsky, 1918-2001. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Cloud Forest I - large format photograph of fantastical tropical rainforest
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of lush tropical rainforest botanical tableau, from a series of highly detailed large format nature observations, an homage to the fantastical jungle paintings by artist Henri Rousseau
Cloud Forest...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
$3,300 Sale Price
25% Off
Delivering a Promise to Marry
Located in San Francisco, CA
During Renaissance Italy, one way to send a message about the life-changing binding of two affluent families was to sit for a portrait like this. The finished work would then be deli...
Category
18th Century Italian School Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunlit (studies)
By Thomas Monaghan
Located in Napa, CA
Oil on Canvas
Monaghan's paintings have always shown a sensitivity and reverence for light on the cusp of change. Says Monaghan, “Many of my paintings which depict dawn or dusk represent a special place and time when I am most compelled to reflect on nature, study its elements, and meditate on the way light and shadow interact. The process of change at these times makes me attentive.”
In his current work, Monaghan investigates the effects of transitional light on water. One sees the glint of a low, strong sun bursting through trees and the heavy filter of atmosphere in these paintings. Light and wind conspire to create bold, abstract designs on a lake surface.
Monaghan creates an evocative realism in his paintings, made all the more compelling by his skillful handling of paint. Textures and surfaces are built up, and the fluid application of these materials effectively embodies the qualities of water and land. Upon close inspection, realism takes a back seat to process and the physical effects of paint and glazes. All of these qualities unite to evoke memories of time and place.
Monaghan’s paintings can be found in the collections of Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios, Walt Disney and Universal Studios, I.B.M., Baron Hilton, Helene Curtis and Fuji Corporations, The Prudential, LaSalle National Bank, The Chicago Mercantile Exchange...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
