Figurative, Portrait

Carlo Cherubini (1890-1978) European

"Paris, 1930"

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 40” x 29”
Frame Size: 50” x 39”
Signature: Signed and dated "Paris, 1930"
Price: $12500

Biography/Statement

Carlo Cherubini was born in Venice, son of a famous Venetian painter. He took part in 1914 at the International Exhibition of Venice and the decoration of the Lido in Paris by painting many decorative panels around the theme of carnival. In 1930, he received the medal of honor at the Salon of French Artists and the silver medal in 1932. His works belong to several museums in Italy and many private collections.

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Dennis Sheehan (1950-) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 20” x 16”
Frame Size: 24” x 20”
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Price: $1800

Biography/Statement

Dennis Sheehan, born in Boston in 1950, is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists. His work is in major public and private collections., including the White House. Sheehan paints in the Barbizon mode with remarkable authority and faithful adherence to his 19th century precursors. In the tradition of the Tonalist painters, Sheehan creates landscapes of mood, affected by nature’s changing seasons.

“Today, in a cultural firmament that has been defined as Postmodern, a new generation of American painters is returning to the old landscape seeking a renewed vision.  The cultural strategies that they employ are as diverse as any from the past; in most cases, these painters consciously strive to enter into a dialogue with the history of the White Mountains art.  Their work, grounded in a sophisticated appreciation of what has come before, is in many cases deliberately discursive with a tradition that has been all but erased twice by historical and cultural forces.” 

The contemporary work of Dennis Sheehan, for example, affords a great nineteenth-century-predecessor George Inness.  Like Inness, whose influence is consciously acknowledged, Sheehan employs the dark palette and thickly pigmented surfaces of the French Barbizon School*. Maintaining a muted tonalist chromatic scheme, Sheehan, like Inness before him, has temerity to eschew picturesque scenery-his Conway Meadows avoids any reference to the traditional climax view of Mount Washington—in the interest of evoking atmospherics* and the appearance of the natural world as it is observed.

Optical truth combined with poetic resonance—the search for some ineffable quality of nature beyond words -constitutes the probity of his art. Yet, also like Inness, Sheehan’s paintings are produced in the studio. His work is the product of the conscious distillation of prior imagery ranging from the American Barbizon to the abstractions of Franz Kline. For all of the references to history—and there are multiple—there is no mistaking the artist’s debt to the more recent past. Without the legacy of action painting, Sheehan’s art would be less forceful and evocative than it is.”

Source: Guild of Boston Artists

 “My goal is to have the painting emanate light, rather than be just a surface that records the reflections of light. This is why the shadow areas are important, for it is from them that this emanation proceeds. The light areas are focal points of this effort, but the power comes from the shadows.” – Dennis Sheehan

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Desire Francois Laugee (1823-1896) European

Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Image Size: 13” x 19”
Signature: Signed and dated 1881 right center
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Désiré-François Laugée was a versatile artist who exhibited at the Paris Salon annually for a fifty-year period (1845-95). Born at Maromme near Rouen, he began his artistic training at Saint-Quentin with Louis-Nicolas Lemasle (1788-1870), a student of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). He then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the well-known teacher François Edouard Picot (1786-1868), another student of David. In his paintings of historical and religious subjects Laugée achieves emotional intensity though the powerful rendering of his figures, and the figures in his portraits and genre pictures have the same solidity and presence. Several of Laugée’s Salon entries were purchased by the French government, including Saint Louis Washing the Feet of the Poor (Ministry of State) and The Death of Zurbaran (Ministry of the Interior). Works in museum collections include Peasant Women of Picardy (Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux) and A Picardy Woman Spinning Wool (Museum of Fine Arts, Amiens).

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Eduoard Ferrer-Comas (1892-1978) European

Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 7” x 10”
Frame Size: 11” x 14”
Signature: Frame inscribed "E. FERRER-COMAS"
Price: $3800

Biography/Statement

Eduard Ferrer Comas was a Spanish artist working in the genres of landscape, figurative and still life. He lived mainly in the city of Barcelona, ​​where most of his work is framed.

Eduardo was the son of Federico Guillermo Cerda Maria Comas and Carlos Ferrer Mitagna doctor and natural Barcelona and Hospitalet respectively. He was born in Barcelona on April 1, 1892 and was the fifth of six children. According to several sources, he died on March 13, 1978 in his hometown of natural causes. A day later, a Mass in Sant Ramon de Penyafort, after which his body was taken to Cementiri de l’Est (Cementiri Poblenou) was held. Sometime between 1908 and 1915, he married Carme Furnells of Barcelona origin. The couple had two children, Robert and Marta Ferrer Furnells that time married continuing the name of the painter. Notably, Marta worked as an artisan and her husband was the famous Catalan decorator Corberó Valeri i Trepat, who came from a family of artists. Thus, we find character related to the world of art within the family.

Eduardo Ferrer Comas – Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

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Eda Sterchi (1885-1969) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 40”
Frame Size: 40” x 50”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $12500

Biography/Statement

Born in Olney, Illinois, Eda Sterchi was a landscape and genre painter who worked in the Midwest, Southwest, Europe, and Tunisia. She was a highly independent woman who was the first among her peers to cut her hair in a bob, the first to get divorced, and the first to smoke cigarettes. Her painting was influenced by European modernism, and many of them had large, abstract fields of color.

She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and with Lucien Simon in Paris. Her work met with early success, and in 1913 she began exhibiting at the American Artists Club and the International Artists Union in Paris. In the United States, she exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute from 1915 to 1920 and had a one-woman show there in 1929.

In Tunisia, she attended the Institute de Carthage and there she received official recognition from that government for the quality of her art work. She divided her time between that country and Chicago.

In 1910, Sterchi first visited Taos, New Mexico, and from then exhibited paintings of New Mexico, especially at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1938 and 1939, and from 1940 to 1962, she lived and painted in Phoenix, Arizona during the winters. She was a member of the Institute de Carthage, Chicago Art Club and Chicago Society of Artists

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