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by Claudia Carr Levy
NEW YORK, NY
.- Upon first seeing Jason Stewarts new work, I thought of Filippo Brunelleschis facade of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, the foundling hospital in Florence that he was commissioned to design in 1419. The arches of the hospital facade have always captivated me. Brunelleschis arches are perfect in their form and progression: perfect graceful architecture. Why, I wondered, did that architectural image appear as I looked at the series of paintings called Shaping Color? The precision of Jason Stewarts arcs in their spaces on canvas resonate with Brunelleschis architecture. The paintings seem to transpose geometric architectural form into pictorial space. Perhaps this geometry would seem to belie the dominance and importance of color in these paintings. Yet color holds the arcs; the arcs hold color. The more one looks at these works, the more one observes the paradox between color and form. And the mo
Hugo Grenville - Juxtaposition & Composition | On View New York
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Findlay Galleries
Findlay Galleries is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition, Juxtaposition & Composition, showcasing the colorful portrait and landscape works by leading British Romantic painter, Hugo Grenville. This exhibition will open on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at Findlay Galleries, New York.
Grenville refers to himself as a romantic but acknowledges a fascination with pattern and color that places him in the tradition of Henri Matisse. The figures and the everyday objects that surround them in his paintings express his joy in life, light, and color. Less evident, but equally important, is a feeling of intimacy that recalls Matisse contemporaries, Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. It is here that we see Grenville being influenced by the principles of Les Nabis - a group of young post-impressionists, avant-garde P
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Jewish artists of L Ecole de Paris offered at Bonhams
Nude by Georges Kars. Estimate: £10,000-15,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON
.- Paris in the first decades of the 20th century was the undisputed international capital of art. Painters and sculptors, pursuing dreams of greatness and eager to experience the zeitgeist, flocked there from all over Europe and America. Among them was Polish-born Moïse Kisling (1891-1953), one of many Jewish émigré artists who made Paris their home at this time. Kislings Nature morte au pichet from 1917 a rare and early Cubist still life by the artist leads L Ecole de Paris 1905-1939: The Jewish Artists sale at Bonhams London on Wednesday 3 March 2021. The work is estimated at £30,000-35,000.