Andy Warhol Week : 10 pieces fetch more than $115M

Tuesday at Sotheby’s in New York; a 1964 print of former US first lady Jackie Kennedy sold for $20.24 million and Warhol’s Shadow – Red which – at just under $5 million.

Wednesday at Christie’s, Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait, a four-part, blue acrylic silkscreen print depicting himself in a trench [...]

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Thomas Schmidt – Granite Form

Granite Form by Tom Schmidt
8″x12″ Granite
$1300

Tom’s work is characteristically lighthearted. Here he’s created an organic shape in this abstracted form. This dark speckled local granite is quarried near by.

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Katsumi Kimoto · Black Hole

Black Hole by Katsumi Kimoto
10″ x 12″
Acrylic on Board
$750.00
This is an exciting new series by Katsumi Kimoto. These paintings are deep, extra glossy, and so filled with saturated colors that at first you’re almost not sure they’re, in fact, paintings. They look more like candies or Murano [...]

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Katsumi Kimoto · Skywards

Skywards by Katsumi Kimoto
9″ x 12″
Acrylic on Board
c/o Artist

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Katsumi Kimoto · Flow

Flow by Katsumi Kimoto
12″ x 12″
Acrylic on Board
c/o the Artist

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Katsumi Kimoto · Summer Field

Summer Field by Katsumi Kimoto
24″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas
$2500

While still somewhat abstracted, this painting crosses into the field of representational art. Clearly this is a painting of summer sun, of wild flowers. Katsumi captures nature’s vibrant display as effortlessly as he catches the eye of the casual art viewer. It’s fresh [...]

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Nana Cook

Canadian artist and writer, Nana Cook, Lives in Nanoose Bay. Although she is known for her passion for painting the American Southwest – a land she has loved and explored since childhood, Nana is also compelled to paint the dramatic beauty surrounding her home in the Pacific northwest, and has created an extensive and provocative [...]

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Nigel Brooks Peer · Ocean Adventure

Ocean Adventure by Nigel Brooks Peer
Photograph
Matted / Framed 21″ x 25″ .
(sold) private collection

This is an image made by exposing overlapping negatives, the individual images intermix to create a new one. This reclining couple appear as watery reflections over the anemones in the overlapping photo.

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Nigel Brooks Peer · When We First Met

When We First Met by Nigel Brooks Peer
Photograph
Matted / Framed 25″ x 21″
(sold) private collection

This is an image made by exposing overlapping negatives, the individual images intermix to create a new one.

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Charles Churhill Villiers – New Website

Modern artist, Charles Churchill Villiers has just launched his new website: www.charlesvilliers.com.
Charles has constructed his own website and in doing so, has realized a long held goal of managing his own on-line presence.

The website, like his artwork, is more than a little avant garde. The site opens with the question “What [...]

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Press Relese – Fish, Ships, & Lost Treasures Art Exhibition

PRESS RELEASE

Fish, Ships, & Lost Treasures
Art Exhibition
March 6 – 16th, 2010

From Saturday, March 6th to Tuesday, March 16th, the Mark Penney Gallery in Ucluelet welcomes the whales with the Art Exhibition Fish, Ships, & Lost Art Treasures.
The gallery, located in Whiskey Landing, is “a [...]

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Charles Villiers · Hurricane Amanda

Hurricane Amanda by Charles Churchill Villiers
36″x36″ Oils on Canvas, framed.
sold (Coulson Collection)

One of a series of non-objective modern abstract paintings by Charles Villiers, each was named for a love in his life in the way that storms are named.

This particular piece really caught my attention, I like the square [...]

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