Artwork on view at Montecito gallery

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Created at a seminal point early in the artist’s career, Le Mont Riboudet a Rouen au Printemps by Claude Monet, depicts a beautiful landscape with flora, figures working in the fields, and haystacks. The aesthetic is comparable to that of Camille Pisarro and Alfred Sisley, Monet’s contemporaries also working en plein air at the time to capture nuances of the French countryside on canvas. The painting’s distinguished provenance includes Durand-Ruel and Gustave Caillebotte.
CLAUDE MONET
Le Mont Riboudet a Rouen au Printemps
1872
21 1/2 x 28 5/8 in.
oil on canvas
Robert Motherwell is admired for his gestural contributions to Abstract Expressionism. From his early period starting in the 1940s until his final works of the 1990s, one can see a distinct stylistic shift into his characteristic Elegy paintings and signature gestural works. Gesture No. 45 demonstrates Motherwell’s intuitive approach to painting influenced by the automatic drawing of the Surrealists. His gestures in this painting are characterized by a suggestion of chance and accident: “Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought,” he said. “Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.”
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
Gesture No. 45
c. 1977
48 x 36 in.
acrylic on canvas
RUDOLF BAUER - Larghetto III - oil and tempera on cardboard - 24 x 34 in.
RUDOLF BAUER
Larghetto III
1919
24 x 34 in.
oil and tempera on cardboard
Born Robert Clark in 1928 in New Castle, Indiana, Robert Indiana is one of the most influential Pop artists of the 20th century. His work has become a pervasive visuality in American culture. Short, bold, and simple, it speaks to viewers through shared cultural touchstones, through word associations, and through its striking relationship to everyday graphics. Indiana first created his iconic “LOVE” imagery as a design for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1965, and few images since have captivated the public imagination so thoroughly. Shimmering in gold and accented in red, this sculpture takes on any symbolism the viewer can dream. Blending word and image, Indiana recognized language as a functional element of art.
ROBERT INDIANA
LOVE
1966-2002
35 7/8 x 36 x 18 in.
polychrome aluminum
Jim Dine was an American Pop artist whose work meditated on objects with childlike appeal to find a universal and nostalgic language. Dine’s robes are among the most recognizable images to have emerged from his long and illustrious career. They were first shown at Sidney Janis gallery in the fall of 1964 – this is one such example. Double Silver Point Robes is a large-scale mixed media assemblage. The work is executed in silverpoint – a technique that utilizes a piece of silver as a drawing instrument over a specially prepared ground by which it oxidizes over a period of months to create a warm brown tone. The two joined canvases feature blocks of wood in place of where the heads should be and a hanging wood element that moves in response to air currents.
JIM DINE
Double Silver Point Robes
1964
53 1/2 x 96 in.
silverpoint and acrylic on 2 joined canvases, wood, knife, and string in artist's frame
ANSELM KIEFER - The Fertile Crescent - mixed media on board - 39 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.
ANSELM KIEFER
The Fertile Crescent
2008
39 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.
mixed media on board
AUGUSTE HERBIN - Notre Dame, Paris - oil on canvas - 24 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.
AUGUSTE HERBIN
Notre Dame, Paris
1908
24 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.
oil on canvas
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE - World on its Hind Legs - metal and wood - 64 x 26 x 30 in.
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
World on its Hind Legs
2010
64 x 26 x 30 in.
metal and wood
Henri Matisse is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century and whose oeuvre covers painting, drawing, sculpture, etchings, linocuts, lithographs, aquatints, paper cutouts, and book illustration. An early proponent of Fauvism with its outrageous colors and dynamic composition, Matisse would also move into abstraction, pioneering the use of color and form in each stage of his career. This drawing depicts Madame Monchaux and displays the incredible draftsmanship that often characterized his work. Striving to achieve “the art of balance, of purity and serenity”, his drawings appear effortless but are careful studies to unite line and form.
HENRI MATISSE
Madame Monchaux
1916
13 x 9 1/2 in.
pencil on paper
Ross Bleckner is a celebrated American painter whose works reference loss, memory, and change such as explorations of the cell during the AIDS epidemic or in response to his father’s cancer diagnosis. The 1965 MoMA exhibition that brought Op Art to the fore, The Responsive Eye and included artists Richard Anuszkiewicz, Tadasky, and Francis Celentano, had a profound influence on him as an artist. This painting, like his other immersive, large-scale works, elicit a powerful, hypnotic, dizzying effect. Aesthetically pleasing, Bleckner’s canvases explore perception – visual, emotional, physical, time. Bleckner is part of the same generation of and friends with Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Eric Fischl, and Peter Halley, all of whom returned painterly technique to the canvas.
ROSS BLECKNER
West to East
2007
72 x 72 in.
oil on linen canvas
Stanton Macdonald-Wright was a co-founder of the Synchromism movement, which combined abstraction and intense color. He was influenced by ideas that the qualities of color were connected to the qualities of music. He stopped painting this way in the 1920s, but his work experienced a revitalization in the 1950s, following a retrospective of his work at LACMA. Inspired by the renewed interest, Wright began producing works with increased passion; these works were considered Neo-Synchromism. La Gaîté is a phenomenal example of this period in Wright’s career, showcasing the brighter colors and larger canvases he favored during his personal renaissance.
STANTON MACDONALD-WRIGHT
La Gaite
1958
50 x 36 in.
oil on canvas
Contemporary American artist George Condo coined the term “artificial realism” to characterize the figures that appear in his work – often described as a combination of European Old Master painting and American Pop art. Condo has defined the term as the “realistic representation of that which is artificial.” Known for figures that are often grotesque or fractured, Condo creates art that is both Contemporary and rooted in art historical tradition, drawing inspiration from Cubism or, in this case, reaching back to ancient Greece. In an uncommon work of sculpture, Condo imparts his distinctive style to the face of a Mycenaean archetype, the goddess figure.
GEORGE CONDO
Mycenaean Goddess
1990
61 x 22 x 15 1/2 in.
bronze
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - Dog God - bronze - 94 x 32 x 24 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
Dog God
1991
94 x 32 x 24 in.
bronze
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - The Eternal Flame - steel - 47 3/4 x 6 x 7 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
The Eternal Flame
2018
47 3/4 x 6 x 7 in.
steel
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - Lutist - bronze - 40 1/2 x 18 x 24 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
Lutist
2004
40 1/2 x 18 x 24 in.
bronze
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
Reaching for a Star
2017-2018
34 1/4 x 8 7/8 x 5 3/4 in.
stainless steel welded
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - En Famille - metal - 15 x 10 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
En Famille
2018
15 x 10 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
metal
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - The Maestro: Le Conducteur - steel - 13 1/2 x 13 x 8 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
The Maestro: Le Conducteur
2018
13 1/2 x 13 x 8 in.
steel
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - Ancestral Planes - bronze - 25 x 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
Ancestral Planes
1991
25 x 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.
bronze
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - Reaching for the Stars - bronze - 15 5/8 x 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
Reaching for the Stars
2018
15 5/8 x 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
bronze
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - Bronze Bouquet - metal - 15 1/4 x 7 x 7 1/2 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
Bronze Bouquet
2018
15 1/4 x 7 x 7 1/2 in.
metal
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - Duet - metal - 9 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
Duet
2018
9 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7 in.
metal
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - March of Glory - stainless steel - 11 5/8 x 9 x 6 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
March of Glory
2019
11 5/8 x 9 x 6 in.
stainless steel
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - Kandinsky Horse - metal - 5 1/2 x 9 x 2 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
Kandinsky Horse
1992
5 1/2 x 9 x 2 in.
metal
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - The Warrior Prince - metal - 8 5/8 x 3 1/4 x 1 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
The Warrior Prince
8 5/8 x 3 1/4 x 1 in.
metal