Barton Lidice Benes

Barton Lidice Benes Mixed Media Work

1988

Additional Information: Work is titled “Viva F.” Provenance: Christie’s auction #6242 lot 27 Private Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired 1986. Marking(s); notes: signed, ma...

Additional Information: Work is titled RIBBON. Provenance: Gift from the artist | The Collection of Dr. Howard Grossman, West Palm Beach, Florida. Marking(s); notes: signed; 2001 ...

Additional Information: Provenance: Vertu Fine Art, Boca Raton, Florida. Marking(s); notes: marking(s) Country of origin; materials: Japan; paper Dim...

Additional Information: Work is titled “Bloodwerk (Brent Below the Chandelier)”. Provenance: Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida Important Collection, Coral Gables, Florida. Ma...

Additional Information: Freddy Wittop’s drawing depicts one of the costumes he designed for “Bajour”. Costume designer Freddy Wittop won a Tony Award for...

"Sound and Color" is an original oil pastel, ballpoint pen, and color pencil on arches paper work by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece ships in the pictured archival custom frame. The paper...

"Sisters #4", 2019 by Valerie Hammond 72 x 35 inches unframed Pigment, Color Pencil, Wax, Glass Beads, and thread on Japanese Rice Paper Coated with Beeswax Vertical, indigo panels ...

"Sisters #2", 2019 by Valerie Hammond 73 x 34.5 inches unframed Pigment, Color Pencil, Wax, Glass Beads, and thread on Japanese Rice Paper Coated with Beeswax Vertical, indigo panels that are unframed, can be installed with magnets, but framing is recommended. In Valerie Hammond’s series of wax drawings, protection is two-fold: the artist (previously) encases dried flowers and ferns in a thin layer of wax, preserving their fragile tissues long after they’ve been plucked from the ground. In outlining a pair of hands, she also secures a memory, or rather, “the essence of a gesture and the fleeting moment in which it was made.” Centered on limbs lying flat on Japanese paper, the ongoing series dates back to the 1990s, when Hammond made the first tracing “partly in response to the death of a dear friend, whose beautiful hands I often found myself remembering.” She continued by working with family and friends, mainly women and children, to delineate their wrists, palms, and fingers. Today, the series features dozens of works that are comprised of either hands tethered to the dried botanics, which sprout outward in wispy tendrils, or others over layed with thread and glass beads. Although the delicate pieces began as a simple trace, Hammond shares that she soon began to overlay the original drawing with pressed florals, creating encaustic assemblages that “echoed the body’s bones, veins, and circulatory systems.” She continued to experiment with the series by introducing various techniques, including printmaking, Xerox transfers, and finally Photoshop inversions, that distorted the original rendering...

The viewer 2022. Paper/mixed media, 19.3x14.8 cm Liga Kalnina Artist Liga Kalnina(1990) is born in Riga, Latvia. Her artist interests is mainly realistically based -landscapes, ...

“This series of paintings was significant for me to make. It marked the return to the studio after a year at home due to the pandemic. New iterations began to emerge (Vessels + Statu...

Colored pencil, opaque watercolor and collage on handmade cotton rag paper 52 x 32 in. Frame is an additional $500 and glazing needs to be added (approximately $800-$1,000).