“Big Red” by Walter Burden. Bold, colorful portrait of a scarlet macaw parrot framed in gold. 26 1/2” x 44”.
Romantic bronze bas relief in the style of Bertel Thorvaldsen depicts a veiled woman scattering flowers. The Plaque measures 12-1/2” diameter, frame is 20” x 20”.
Cultivated fields in varied shades of green give way to blue and purple mountains in the distance in this fine Post-Impressionist style oil painting from South America. Signed D. Araujo. 21-3/4” x 25-1/2”. framed
Dramatic bronze bas relief of an emperor or general in armor on horseback. A very handsome pice for an office or study. Plaque measures 23” diameter. Frame is 30” x 30”.
Three expressionist female nudes. Mixed media on paper. Artist Signed. 24” x 28”.
Unfortunately we do not the origins of this very fine painting of men playing dominos. Although naive in style the picture is very well executed--note how everything is brighter around the oil lamp as well as the individualized expressions of the people. The picture is signed but we know nothing about the artist 34" x 25"
Large oil on canvas folk art work showing daily activities in a village set in a tropical forest. 48” x 36”
Mixed Media on Board. 23-1/2” x 17”. Neith Nevelson is the granddaughter of American sculptor Louise Nevelson. Her complex pairings are based on the gestural fluidity of drawing and reflect the conflicts of the art world family isolation and longing for lost childhood. We have a number works by this important outsider artist.
Watercolor & ink on Paper 18” x 21” framed. Josephine Baker (USA/ France 1906-1975)was an international superstar for 5 decades as well as an activist, humanitarian and spy for the French Resistance. Her sensuality and exoticism is well portrayed by Saunders (USA 1902-1978)who was a costume designer and long-time Ringling College department head.
Watercolor on paper Watercolor painting of a weaver painted in Cartago, Costa Rica in 1938. Signed Jimenez A, lower right.
Serigraph on canvas board 32” x 26”. Maxine Shattuck Klinkenberg was a Florida painter and printmaker. The New York native studied first in Paris ands then at the Art Students League and Yale University. She moved to Miami in the early 1950s to pursue a career as a serious artist. This pouchoir serigraph (#13/20) is expressive and beautiful colored.
Original painting of a lonely tree by a road running between planted fields with the sun setting in the distance. Oil on canvas. 29” x 34-1/2” framed.
"Metropolis" is a dynamic, abstract, city view made of folded metal with reflective chrome and copper finishes. Signed Curtis Jere '78. 26” x 49” x 5" deep.
Abstracted view of sailboats in the bright sun. Oil on canvas, artist Signed 13” x 25” framed.
Very attractive prints featuring newly hatched sea turtles making their way to the surf. The coloring is perfect for coastal decor and the subject matter super appropriate. Each is 24” x 33”.
Pair of colorful fish prints look antique but are reproductions of 18th C hand colored engravings. Great accents to add to your coastal decor. 21-1/2” x 32”.
Pair of colorful framed watercolors of Ecuadorians in the market wearing their traditional hats and ponchos. 11” x 9-1/2” and 9-1/2” x 11”.
Sarasota artist Julie Krasner combines painting and collage in dynamic words off vivid color. Her works are sold at galleries nationwide. Each 12” x 12” unframed. Sold as a pair.
Acrylic and Gold Paint on Canvas. 19-1/2” x19-1/2”
Ink on paper, artist signed. 14 1/2” x 19” Framed
Silver starfish in shadowbox is an exciting accent in your costal home. Made by Uttermost. 20” x 20” x 2.5” Deep.
Plaque covered with a few dozen different sized and shaped terracotta tiles. Some are textured and some are finished with glass enamel. A very interesting, textured piece of Mid-Century Modern style art. 6 1/4” x 24” tall.
Artist signed oil painting oil on Canvas depicting rolling fields punctuated by white farm houses, cypres
We are proud to currently have 8 artworks (6 shown here) by American artist Neith Nevelson, granddaughter of the sculptor Louise Nevelson. Undaunted after expulsion from art school in Florence, Italy, Neith continued to draw and from there developed her style into complex paintings based on the gestural fluidity of drawing. The form of her art reflects the conflicts and contradictions of her life, living in the orbit of her famous grandmother and the New York art world of the 1960s, hardship an
Gorgeous pink and blue Impressionist composition executed with bravura impasto technique. The couple in the foreground survey a fantastic city built around a tropical lagoon. 39” x 26-1/2.
Paint on Cloth, 24” x 20”. The repetition of forms and patterns—common to Haitian painting— gives the work a kind of rhythm.
Small oil painting signed Francois is a gilded frame full of colorful peonies. The style is reminiscent of Chagall. 16” x 18”.
Mixed Media on Masonite 37” x 49”. Storm “Sunny” Larue was an Abstract Expressionist and Modernist painter from Cocoanut Grove, Florida, known for dense compositions of imaginative organic forms.
Oil on burlap canvas. 32-1/2” x 36-1/2”. Painter and sculptor Delbert "Sleepy" Read is best known for landscapes of his native Texas. He was the father of artists Martin and Stylle Read.
Sarasota painter Janet Filer Silberstein attended Adelphi University and later began studies in sculpture and painting at Pratt Institute and The Art Students League of New York. She also studied painting with Syd Solomon and Larry Rivers, and her paintings were exhibited in New York and Sarasota galleries. Silberstein also studied photography with Ansel Adams
Mixed Media on Linen, 25” x 19-1/2”. Neith Nevelson is the granddaughter of great American sculptor Louise Nevelson. Her father, Mike Nevelson (1922-2019), was a sculptor, and her mother, Susan Nevelson (1924-2015), was an artist and textile designer. She spent her childhood in Florence, Italy, and studied at the Academia del Belle Arti there but rebelled against traditional curriculum and was expelled.
Paint on Cloth, Part of the beauty of Haitian folk painting is the repetition of forms and patterns which gives rhythm to the dense and energetic compositions.
Rustic and elegant hammered sheet metal sculpture of a saddled horse. Note the interesting contrast of the curved neck and right angled tail. 27-1/2” x 6-1/2” x 23” tall.
Modernist marble sculpture suggests two figures embracing either with love or consolation. 12” x 7” x 8-1/2” tall.
Mixed Media on Canvas. 49” x 25”. Storm “Sunny” Larue was an Abstract Expressionist and Modernist painter from Cocoanut Grove, Florida, known for dense compositions of imaginative organic forms.
Limited edition print. 16” x 21” framed. Colorful tropical fish swimming in among swaying seagrass make a pretty piece of art to complement a coastal room.
Abstract Modernist form cut from golden alabaster. Artist unknown. 10” x 8" x 13” tall.
Mercado Azul (Blue Market) Acrylic on canvas 13-1/2" x 17" This small picture of faceless, blue-clad figures at a market in Haiti has enormous presence and expressive power.
Eduard Cuyo is part of the school of naive painters in Tigua, Ecuador, He depicts a fantasy landscape with people, sheep and llamas or such harmony even the rocks and volcano smile. 12” x 8-3/4" unframed.
Three Faces 1967 Tempera on brown paper 14-1/2" x 9-1/2" framed Sybil Gibson (nee Aaron) was a talented, self-taught, outsider artist from Dora, Alabama. At the age of 55, with no previous training nor interest in art, Gibson was seized "suddenly and completely" by the urge to create. At hand were brown paper grocery bags and powdered tempera paint. These materials remained her media for 35 years of compulsive painting that utterly remade her life.
Birds eye view of a tropical village executed in enamels on a copper plate. Signed M Kolber. Wide, white distressed wood drama. 17” x 15”.
Acrylic on Cloth 40" x 40" Francisco Giorgio Sferra is Florida artist based in Homestead. This black and white abstract with shouts of red and blue bristles with electricity.
Southeast Asian guard. Hand carved wood. 10” x 8” x 39” tall.
Enjoy a marvelous interplay of shape, color and texture in this fine abstract painting by artist M. Grafton. 26 1/2” x 51”.
The annual celebration of excess that precedes Lent is the subject of this vibrant Mid-Century Modern painting. Amid the flowers you will see two female nudes. Signed Carole. Acrylic on canvas, undated. 28” x 52” framed.
Two lovers in a never-ending circle share an everlasting kiss in this West African stone sculpture that represents unity. 14” tall. 10” wide.
Ruth Faktor (or Faktorwicz) is an Israeli ceramic artist known for tiles and reliefs. This beautiful example features a collage of architectural forms seen in old Jerusalem and other ancient cities. It has multiple textures and finishes for even more visual interest. 14-3/4” x 15-1/2” framed.
A loving couple appropriately cut from one piece of wood and signed by the artist. Crafted in Philippines. 7" x 3.25" x 15"
Brutalist cast aluminum sculpture in the manner of Marcello Fantoni by Malfada Stewart. This Mid Century Modern tabletop artwork is the same front and back. 7-1/2” x 4” x 14” tall.
David Scwindt (USA born 1947), Oil on canvas. Schwindt captures a rain storm passing over the rim of the Grand Canyon and evokes the immensity of the western landscape. After graduating Fort Lewis College and moving to Santa Fe, NM in 1971, David Schwindt began painting, en plein air, the incredibly diverse geographical areas of the Southwest. He says of his art, “My painting is a way of getting to know a place. I hope my work might stop you for a moment to ling