Sentences with phrase «canvas by»

A large - scale canvas by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) was the top lot at Sotheby's contemporary art auction last week.

The presence of a 1961 slashed, unpainted canvas by Lucio Fontana reminds us that some European artists at the time thought a little differently about similar issues.

There was a respectful pause in the aspersions as the camera passed a canvas by Helen Frankenthaler, although her name was not mentioned.

Dressed casually in a striped shirt and khakis, Economou said he bought a canvas by postwar Japanese artist Kazuo Shiraga, known for painting with his bare feet, at the fair in Basel.

Handwoven panels of high - contrast stripes — pink and green, black and white — sewn together and mounted on canvas by the Berlin - based Canadian, split the difference between Op art and craft.

«Transfiguration,» a 1948 oil on canvas by Michael Corinne West.

In October, Low's black, punctured, egg - shaped canvas by Lucio Fontana fetched 15.9 million pounds in London, leading Sotheby's mid-season contemporary art sales and setting what was then an auction record for the postwar Italian artist.

«Power Plant,» a nearly 6 - foot - square canvas by Barry Le Va, evokes Philip Guston and H.C. Westermann and filters both through Le Va's lifelong focus on the power of line and its capacity for drama.

I'm Lucky To Be Here (With Someone I Like) is a two person show with dozens of new drawings on wood, paper, and canvas by husband and wife team Mike Lowery and Katrin Wiehle; You Make Me Feel Special is a solo exhibit of new works on paper in our Grey Gallery by local talent John Tindel; Ascension introduces emerging artist Jonny Warren in our new Emerging Gallery projects space.

«Prague Afternoon,» a riveting canvas by the estimable Katherine Porter, anchors the final gallery, which covers the 1990s on.

This is Boys» Quarters second ever exhibition and it features a series of powerful works on canvas by Port Harcourt - based painter, Segun Aiyesan.

Alchemical Reaction by Andrea Scott In a hallucinatory catalog essay co-written in 1966 by Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, an extraterrestrial comments on a canvas by the engineer of his spaceship: «I'm glad you're conventional, with no qualms about painting beautiful pictures.

On one end hangs «God Turned Backwards,» a 1987 oil on canvas by Carlos Alfonzo.

Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings on canvas by contemporary artist Armand Boua.

The three monochromatic paintings in this exhibition mark the newest works on canvas by the artist, each using gloss line on a matte background.

When he is satisfied with a particular drawing, he transfers it onto canvas by tracing the forms and masking out certain sections with tape to create lines and shapes.

* Unframed Mixed Media Abstract painting on gallery wrapped canvas by Sarah Farrar.

Towards the upper end of the spectrum on day one in Miami was a remarkable 1964 canvas by Kenneth Noland, Mach II, which sold from Acquavella Galleries in the fair's first hours... Acquavella said that dealers, like her family's, have been experiencing the same supply constraints that have hobbled the secondary market over the past year.

Thirteen works on paper and canvas by California color - field painter Sam Francis come with the Fisher trove, enough to make a case for Francis» importance, because all show him at the top of his form.

A canvas by Retna fetched just over $ 30,000, while Barry McGee's composite brought more than $ 120,000.

The work might call to mind The Rose (1958 — 66), the 2,300 pound canvas by Jay deFeo, a work into which, as Baker recently wrote on «Painters» Table,» «she poured her entire vision and energy» over an eight - year period.

The recent gifts from 40 collections include «Saint Augustine in Ecstasy» an oil on canvas by Bartolome Murillo.

A large canvas by Agnes Martin, who considered herself an Abstract Expressionist — although her work is closely aligned with Minimalism — consists of faint, hand - ruled graphite lines on an off - white background.

May 2009 During the month of May, MAC ART Group will be featuring new encaustic works on canvas by Jacqueline.

Photographer Catherine Opie is beguiled by the embrace of a pair of wrestlers in an 1899 canvas by Thomas Eakins.

«Caribbean Calling» is a light, airy and bright abstract expressionist painting on canvas by one of Chairish's top selling artists, Trixie Pitts.

There's also a solid helping of funkier, more - organic - looking abstraction here — a veiny network of yellow and black lines by Daniel Reynolds, a brushy green canvas by Gregory Montreuil, a spooky painting in pesto green and light purple by Gail Fitzgerald that looks like some ghostly undersea creature (and suggests a miniature, low - key Sigmar Polke) and, probably my favorite work here, a square with a few barely there marks, whiffs of different colors by Roberta Allen.

East & West Galleries: Horror Vacui Horror Vacui presents works on paper and canvas by four young artists, Gregory Ball, Denise Malis, Martin Pearce and Kate Wilson, who share a similar pictorial vision of the world; a vision characterized by continual transformation, complexity, chaos and a dense saturation of elements.

Elrod is a painter, his paintings originate from the graphics program Paint, he takes pictures of the screen, projects them onto the canvas and then copies them onto the canvas by hand.

Last year, the White House hung a newly acquired Thomas painting in the Obamas» dining room, while the Whitney pulled another canvas by the artist from storage, juxtaposing it prominently with a Cy Twombly painting in the inaugural exhibition of its new building.

But the most startling display may be the one in his living room: He has mixed works from his approximately 200 - piece collection — a comically large bright pink rubber phallus by Sarah Lucas; unusual drawings by Paul Thek in yellow Plexiglas frames; a heavy, stone - patterned gray canvas by Peter Halley; an upright cannon by Valentin Carron; an array of silk screens by the reclusive Cady Noland — with a resin prototype of his first tree.

Chapline then takes the digital file and converts it analogue through painting his canvas by hand, starting with bright underlayers reminiscent of a cell phone screen.

A mournful ink - jet print on canvas by Chicano artist Miguel Angel Reyes entitled Remember Me (1998 — 2016), for example, showed the bust of a muscular man, his shoulders and chest in focus, but his face blurred, as if partly erased.

Also on view will be a canvas by gallery artist Marlene Dumas, The White Disease (1985), offers a punctuating re ection on identity and ethnicity.

Certain works, including a provocative brown - hued canvas by Marcel Duchamp, were lambasted.

Lot 15, «No. 18,» is a 55 1/2 - by - 47 7/8 - inch oil on canvas by Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970) that was executed in 1948.

Lot 32, «Grab des unbekannten Malers,» is a 51 - by - 66 7/8 - inch oil and shellac on canvas by Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945).

Lot 23, «Gestell (580 - 3), is a strong, 102 1/2 - by - 78 3/4 - inch oil on canvas by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that is one of his very colorful abstractions.

He began to «process» the paint and canvas by dragging «large troughs of paint... across the canvas with tools including squeegees, rakes, and Afro combs.

NG: The egg shape is appropriated from a shaped canvas by Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968); on a formal basis, it is concerned with finding space on the flat picture plane.

A luscious, large oil on canvas by Morris Louis, Lot 21, has an estimate of $ 700,000 to $ 900,000 and sold for $ 1,659,500, breaking the artist's former auction record of $ 1,045,000.

Inspired by pop culture and cartoons, Jamie Powell's paintings incorporate elements of chance and improvisation as she manipulates the canvas by dyeing, cutting, and tying pieces to create sculptural forms, revealing the underlying frame.

While many people think of portraiture as an individual sitting to have their image captured on canvas by an artist, the art form is actually broader and much more complex.

De Maria continued to transcend the confines of the canvas by imbuing the exhibition space with the art of color in the tradition of the old masters of Italian churches.

Another star of the Israel Phoenix group is Lot 14, «White Fire I,» a 47 7/8 - by - 59 3/4 - inch oil on canvas by Barnett Newman (1905 - 1970).

A large sombre canvas by George Shaw, Landscape with Fuck All (2015) had garnered lots of interest but no buyers: «I think people here prefer brighter colours in general», he reflected.

Lot 35, «Gamma Kappa» is a classic and superb acrylic on canvas by Morris Louis (1910 - 1962).

Lot 19 is a very good oil on canvas by Bradley Tomlin Walker (1899 - 1953).

Lot 60, «Words,» a 24 1/2 - inch square ink on paper mounted on canvas by Agnes Martin (b. 1912), sold for $ 291,750, surpassing the artist's previous auction record of $ 156,500 for a work on paper.

Indeed, Dominique Lévy arrived without the centerpiece of her booth — a large canvas by the Russian artist Nicolas de Staël (1914 - 55)-- because a collector bought it before the fair began.