All SOLD ART

Javier Marin Bronze Nude Latin American 28" Highly stylized & expressionistic bronze nude. Was installed by the pool of a recently purchase house.
Javier Marín is an exceptional sculptor, truly one of the greatest artists of our era. The massive bronze nudes of Javier Marín embrace all the vitality of Renaissance sculpture, capture the mystery of Michelangelo's Bound Slaves, the drama of Rodin's Gates of Hell and the extraordinary dignity of Mayan and Aztec portraiture. His work is a unique and dynamic blend of Western European and Mexican culture.

Marín was born in Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico in 1962. He studied at San Carlos, the National Academy of Art, in Mexico City and has exhibited widely throughout Mexico with solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, MARCO in Monterrey, and the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. He has been featured in over thirty solo exhibitions and participated in more than one hundred international exhibitions. .mx/

 

Tree Family, Manuel Mendive, Cuban Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches

Untitled III, Manuel Mendive, Cuban (1944 - )
Year: 2006
Medium: Serigraph, blind stamped, signed and numbered in pencil. Free Shipping USA
Edition: 93/100
 

Qing Dynasty / Republic Cinnabar Vase Lamp 14.5" x 8.5" Vase, 27" overall. Large, nicely carved & well defined, late Qing, early Republic 4 panel Cinnabar vase mounted as a lamp. Excellent condition.
 

PALLME KONIG AUSTRIAN NOUVEAU MINI VASE PAIR 5.25"x2" Palme Konig vases circa 1900-1910. Triple layered, threaded. Qualitatively better than Loetz, under appreciated and undervalued glassware. Buy now while still affordable.
 

DECO CUBIST 50s OIL W/ GIO PONTI TABLE 34"x45" Overall, 26"x36" Painting. Fascinating still life that incorporates a number of styles and periods. The glass top table is, I believe a Gio Ponti design from the 1930's. This painting looks of the 1950's. Signed M. Pintado on the front and M. Pintado, New York on the back. Could be a sleeper. Couple pin holes, but otherwise in excellent conditon.
 

DECO WIERD NUDE MARBLE SCULPTURE DeCREEFT 27x12x8", Carved marble of a semi nude mother and child. Very weird and strange mixture of human and animal. She appears to be part pussycat and reptile, has one muscular arm and one claw. The babe looking rear, appears alien. Acquired in the 70's, I've had this in storage over 20 years, and forgot about it until my sister asked me to get my "junk" our of her basement. It is signed J. DeCreeft. Jose Decreeft is best known for his alice in wonderland sculpture in central park, and The Poet, on the East River Dr. in Philadelphia. According to his widow, this is probably a students piece. He taught for 30 years. Still a great piece.
 

JACOB'S WELL JEWISH HEBREW BIBLICAL OIL PAINT 73x43" Very old, possibly late 18th, early 19th century oil painting on canvas, of young Hebrew women, sharing water with a Jacob, as the shepherds watch in the background. Rachel seems to fancy this traveler, while her sister Leah looks on disdainfully. One friend seems to enjoy Rachel's delight, the other has an, (your asking for trouble look) & is ignoring it. The painting has been remounted on masonite board, is in excellent original condition, has no signature, possibly lost during the preservation. The frame is old, (not as) & has also been restored to fit the painting. Probably from an old Synagogue. I've included a closeup of the fabric to show you it's antiquity.
 

BENJAMIN LEVIN ART DECO PARIS CAFE PRINT 25x19" Benjamin Levin 1926 Art Deco Paris cafe print. An absolutely gorgeous print, in rich detail. The women and men are dressed to the nines, sitting outside a Parisian cafe. Excellent condition.
 

80's DOE EYED OIL OF TWO GIRLS AND KITE 53.5x44" Large oil painting of two girls with kite. A piece in which the massive size only adds to the vibrant colors and brushwork. A sentimental depiction of two young girls completely absorbed in flying a kite. The small tear in the cavas will be fixed before shipped out. Signed "R. Barret.""
 

Deco 'Rosa Estralla' lino cut Overall size 17x14", Print size 13x10"
"Rosa Estralla" 1957, lino or wood cut print. Great bedroom, dressing room piece.
 

JOHN NYGREN MULTI-COLORED VASE 6.5x5x5" Beautiful, mottled, & multi hued, somewhat dichroic, glass vase done by glass master, John Nygren. This piece, subdued with silvery greys in artificial light, comes alive with brilliant almost iridescent blues & greens in the sunlight. John Nygren's work and career embody western NC's glass tradition. The rural NC landscape inspires his work and fuels his passion for ecology and the environment, themes which are reflected in the 30 years of work represented in the exhibition. His glass works range from landscape vessels, classic vase forms with delicately wrought natural elements, to whimsical frogs. After earning an MFA degree from the Cranbook Academy of Art, Nygren first trained in the art of glassblowing at NC's Penland School of Crafts in 1968. After the three-week workshop, he left with finished glass pieces, two which were juried into important exhibitions and a third which was purchased by Charlotte's Mint Museum. A year later he moved to Walnut Cove, NC, where he built the studio in which he still works. Though living in NC, Nygren's successful art career was firmly launched when he became a member of New York's newly formed Contemporary Art Glass Group (now the Heller Gallery) in 1973. Nygren's glass resides in the collections of corporations, universities and museums throughout the country, including the Smithsonian.
Signed John Nygren and dated 1973.
 

Rare Monumental Phoenix Glass Raspberry Vase 18 x 9" One of the rarer & more desirable of phoenix glass vases. Excellent condition.
Manufacturer: Phoenix  

20th C QIANLONG MONUMENTAL BLUE VASE (1 left) 18x8.5x8.5. (One) Blue ground, gilt trimmed, first half 20th century, (30's-50-s) Qianlong mark, court ladies vase. Pristine condition. A rare & aristocratic vase.
 

PAIR QIANLONG STORY VASES 12x4.5x4.5 First 1/2 20th century, Qianlong marked, cream white porcelain story vases. "Dreaming in the Red Palace" As I understand it, the classic story is about a heart broken poor girl (jade girl) , longing , heartbroken on a late spring night, for the "fragrance" of her aristocratic heart throb, as his class peer future wife, waits. Beautifully executed piece, with delicate features, subtle shadings, & scraffito glaze outlines. A fine, fine pair. Pristine condition.
 

WIFREDO LAM HAND PAINTED BOWL Excellent condition. Genuine Wifredo Lam ceramic bowl. Purchased off the kitchen wall of an elderly Cuban widow. She told us that her husband had been a museum curator, & knew Lam, & that Lam often visited when in Havana. There is a similar painting in the Havana Museum of Art.