Andrea Smith

Andrea Smith - 1998 Pastel, Romantic Anticipation

1998

A striking and lyrical oil pastel scene showing a woman in a red cloak standing outside of a rainbow house. The artist has signed and dated to the lower right and the artwork has bee...

Presented in a white card mount. Bankside Gallery label fixed to the reverse. Inscribed and signed to the reverse. On paper.

A fun depiction of a shepherds hut in progress, by experimental artist Douglas Pittuck (1911-1993). The painting has been signed and dated to the lower l...

A charming scene depicting a crowded British pub. Signed to the lower right. presented in a dark wooden frame. On paper.

A thoroughly charming interior scene in gouache, by early 20th century artist A. Chambers. Here, an elderly women is pictured at her kitchen table, reading today's paper in the morning light. Chambers has managed to capture a wonderful life...

A thoroughly charming interior scene in watercolour, by early 20th century artist A. Chambers. Here, an elderly man is pictured enjoying a generous cup of tea and a slice of cake in ...

Price and size includes frames (maple wood with white mats). Artwork 58" x 38" Her pastel-on-sandpaper series, "Domestic Threats" and "Black Paintings", both use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly charged narratives.[9][10] Rachko also has created a series of photographs entitled "Gods and Monsters".[11] In these chromogenic prints, she is "painting with a camera," creating variations that free the camera from being a mechanical recording device of what lies before it. She prints all of these images by hand. The earlier "Domestic Threats" pastel-on-sandpaper paintings used her West Village apartment or her 1932 Sears house in Virginia as a backdrop. The "Black Paintings" series grew directly from "Domestic Threats". In the "Black Paintings," the figures (actors) take center stage. All background details, furniture, rugs, etc. have been eliminated and replaced by intense dark black pastel. Each painting takes months to complete as she slowly builds up as many as 30 layers of soft pastel. Her long-standing fascination with traditional masks progressed in the spring of 2017 when she visited the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Bolivia where one exhibition included more than fifty festival masks. The resulting series is entitled “Bolivianos”.[12] She has also written an e-book, From Pilot to Painter[13] and writes a regular blog, Barbara Rachko...

Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fear...

Sketches for female nudes is an original artwork realized by Jean Dreyfus-Stern in 1916. Pencil of paper. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower margin. Dated in pencil...

Interior of a Chapel is an original contemporary artwork realized by the French artist Pierre Segogne in the second half of the XX Century. Original colored pastel on paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner: P.Segogne. Mint conditions. Beautiful work on paper depicting the interior of a gothic chapel...

An atmospheric landscape in the last glow of the evening sun by a rare 19th Century master , Auguste Delâtre. Delâtre (1822-1902) was a pioneering pri...

Pastel on paper Image size: 22 x 14 3/4 inches (55.75 x 37.5 cm) Original frame Gordon Scott Gordon Scott was trained at the Royal College of Art (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, ...