Thornton Utz

Blond Nude with Cat - White on White Monochromatic

1990

In some instances, a painting will look significantly much better in person than it does digitize. This is one instance. In-person, this painting will knock your socks off. It is...

A magical, idealized moment is captured as a bare-breasted maiden strolls out in the rain. Inscribed with title and signature on reverse Roughton Galleries; Dallas, Texas The work ...

Jacqueline Marval was close friends with Kees van Dongen and her work is of the same school as, Matisse and Marie Laurencin. Les Odalisques is quite contemporary looking with it's main figure having joyful life and vitality to her. Some refer to her as a Fauve and some as a post-impressionist. Clearly, she is an overlooked female artist. This work is over...

A stunning, beautiful nude dancer exhibiting ideal proportions and crowned with an ornate floral headdress holds a luminescent Japanese Lantern. The lantern glows, and the dancer glo...

A young man at a crowded upper-class Haitian swimming pool attracts attention. We see him only from the back in a Magritte like pose. Transfixed expressions of some of the nubile bare-breasted bathing beauties and one man with his hands down his pants give us a clue that the mystery man is special. This is a fascinating work packed with drama and overflowing with pent-up emotion.
Bigaud's narrative is as complex as his figural composition of lookers and swimmers. Notice the sight lines of the lookers go back to front while the two swimmers go from left to right. The twenty-two figures are contained in the rectangular shape of the pool, which is pushed to the front of the picture plane. The cars of the pool partygoers are seen in the background with one witness. He is fully clothed and is most likely a chauffeur. The fully clothed female at the pool offering food is a servant. A boxy-looking radio with a pack of cigarettes and the style of the cars give glue to the date. Most Haitian art depicts average working people. The pool party departs from that tradition and shows life of the Haitian upper class. Most likely, this was painted in Petion-Ville. The higher the elevation in Port-au-Prince the more wealthy the homes. Although the artist's painting technique may be described as naive or lacking polish.
It's one of the reasons why the work radiates charm and interest. The painting is oversized with huge dimensions of 55 x 48 and will be a statement in any room. Wilson Bigaud is considered to be a Haitian master. The condition is good. Three repaired one-inch issues on the extreme center and upper right edge. Visible only on close inspection. Otherwise presents very well and is elegantly framed, ______________________________________ Haitian master Wilson Bigaud is renowned for works portraying everyday life and rites of passage—vodou rituals, fortune-tellers, weddings, cockfights, and carnivals—with voluminous figures and lucid colors. Born in Port-au-Prince, in 1946 Bigaud was among the first to attend DeWitt Peters’s Le Centre d’Art d’Haïti, where he studied with Hector Hyppolite...

Excellent Mid-century nude by famous illustrator/ artist Walter Charles Klett. The work is masterfully painted with a sound understanding of the basic academic principles guiding t...

A whimsical modern figurative piece depicting a reclining woman with a black cat on a bright blue background by California artist Richard "Don" Klopfer (1920-2009). Signed on verso a...

Signed lower right, 'Henry Ottmann' (French, 1877-1927) and painted circa 1915. Born in 1877 in the Loire Valley, Henri Ottmann first exhibited in the Salon de la Libre Esthétique ...

“Bathing Nymphs,” Oil on Canvas cm 115×110 with frame cm 140×135 Fioravante Seibezzi (Venice, 1906-1974), Post-Impressionist Venetian painter, he devoted himself to landscape en plein air, translating the immediacy of impressionism through pure, bright colors. His debut at the Venice Biennale in 1938, participates in the Quadrennial Roman (1931, 1935, 1948, 1951, 1959) and several exhibitions abroad. He received important awards during his long career. In 2010 the exhibition “Settepittori Settemondi. Palazzo Carminati La Bohème “at the Maximilian Tower of St. Erasmus, Venice, sponsored by the Cultural Paolo Rizzi in collaboration with the Institution Lagoon Park – City of Venice. One hundred works from a single collector who chose Aldo Bergamini, Neno Mori, Marco Novati...

“Bathing Nymphs,” Oil on Canvas cm 115×110 with frame cm 140×135 Fioravante Seibezzi (Venice, 1906-1974), Post-Impressionist Venetian painter, he devoted himself to landscape en plein air, translating the immediacy of impressionism through pure, bright colors. His debut at the Venice Biennale in 1938, participates in the Quadrennial Roman (1931, 1935, 1948, 1951, 1959) and several exhibitions abroad. He received important awards during his long career. In 2010 the exhibition “Settepittori Settemondi. Palazzo Carminati La Bohème “at the Maximilian Tower of St. Erasmus, Venice, sponsored by the Cultural Paolo Rizzi in collaboration with the Institution Lagoon Park – City of Venice. One hundred works from a single collector who chose Aldo Bergamini, Neno Mori, Marco Novati...

“Bathing Nymphs,” Oil on Canvas cm 115×110 with frame cm 140×135 Fioravante Seibezzi (Venice, 1906-1974), Post-Impressionist Venetian painter, he devoted himself to landscape en plein air, translating the immediacy of impressionism through pure, bright colors. His debut at the Venice Biennale in 1938, participates in the Quadrennial Roman (1931, 1935, 1948, 1951, 1959) and several exhibitions abroad. He received important awards during his long career. In 2010 the exhibition “Settepittori Settemondi. Palazzo Carminati La Bohème “at the Maximilian Tower of St. Erasmus, Venice, sponsored by the Cultural Paolo Rizzi in collaboration with the Institution Lagoon Park – City of Venice. One hundred works from a single collector who chose Aldo Bergamini, Neno Mori, Marco Novati...

“Bathing Nymphs,” Oil on Canvas cm 115×110 with frame cm 140×135 Fioravante Seibezzi (Venice, 1906-1974), Post-Impressionist Venetian painter, he devoted himself to landscape en plein air, translating the immediacy of impressionism through pure, bright colors. His debut at the Venice Biennale in 1938, participates in the Quadrennial Roman (1931, 1935, 1948, 1951, 1959) and several exhibitions abroad. He received important awards during his long career. In 2010 the exhibition “Settepittori Settemondi. Palazzo Carminati La Bohème “at the Maximilian Tower of St. Erasmus, Venice, sponsored by the Cultural Paolo Rizzi in collaboration with the Institution Lagoon Park – City of Venice. One hundred works from a single collector who chose Aldo Bergamini, Neno Mori, Marco Novati...