Artwork on view at Montecito gallery

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ROBERT HENRI - Girl with Muff - oil on canvas - 57 1/4 x 38 3/4 in.
ROBERT HENRI
Girl with Muff
c. 1900
57 1/4 x 38 3/4 in.
oil on canvas
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
Roy Lichtenstein’s style of Pop art was inspired by comic strips, in which he created images through a combination of mechanical reproduction and hand-drawing. He used iconic images and cultural influences to create striking action images, often with captions and onomatopoeic exclamations, much as one would find in comics. This screenprint is from a group of seven Reflections prints and in each, the image is obscured by color and patterns resembling the reflected light as if behind glass. Inspired by trying to photograph a work by Robert Rauschenberg behind glass, Lichtenstein appropriated images from his past and thus brings the appropriation of Pop art full circle.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Reflections on Crash
1990
59 1/8 x 75 in.
lithograph, screenprint, relief, and metalized PVC collage
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
JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE - Portrait of Jeanne Philiberte Ledoux (1767–1840), half-length - oil on panel - 23 5/8 x 19 3/8 in.
JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE
Portrait of Jeanne Philiberte Ledoux (1767–1840), half-length
c. 1790
23 5/8 x 19 3/8 in.
oil on panel
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
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
Afternoon Tea on the Terrace (1905-1906) was commissioned by Rodman Wanamaker as part of a mural for the Grand Deluxe Shelburn hotel in Atlantic City. The mural was later divided into seven pieces that were displayed in the hotel dining room. Frieseke’s earliest mural work was for his patron, Rodman Wanamaker. Other commissions included mural decorations that were installed in Wanamaer’s New York department store in 1904 and 1907, the Rodman Wanamaker Hotel in 1905, and the Amphitheater of Music in New York in 1908. Art historians credit Wanamaker’s constant commissions as being the sole reason Frieseke was able to devote himself to painting.
FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE
Afternoon Tea on the Terrace
1905-1906
55 x 57 in.
oil on canvas
HASSEL SMITH - In the Valley of the King - acrylic on canvas - 67 1/2 x 68 in.
HASSEL SMITH
In the Valley of the King
1983
67 1/2 x 68 in.
acrylic on canvas
ROBERT GRAHAM - Elisa - cast bronze, patinaed or painted oil - 58 1/2 x 16 x 16 in.
ROBERT GRAHAM
Elisa
58 1/2 x 16 x 16 in.
cast bronze, patinaed or painted oil
MARC CHAGALL - The Yellow Sun - lithograph - 20 x 24 in.
MARC CHAGALL
The Yellow Sun
1968
20 x 24 in.
lithograph
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS - Succession - bronze - 27 1/4 x 17 x 13 in.
ARISTIDES DEMETRIOS
Succession
2005
27 1/4 x 17 x 13 in.
bronze
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
LARRY BELL - Small Mirage Study #320 - vapor drawing on canvas - 30 x 30 in.
LARRY BELL
Small Mirage Study #320
1992
30 x 30 in.
vapor drawing on canvas
LARRY BELL - Small Mirage Study #398 - vapor drawing on canvas - 30 x 30 in.
LARRY BELL
Small Mirage Study #398
1992
30 x 30 in.
vapor drawing on canvas
THOMAS WILLIAM JONES - Skagit Yellow - watercolor - 13 x 20 in.
THOMAS WILLIAM JONES
Skagit Yellow
c. 2013
13 x 20 in.
watercolor
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
PABLO PICASSO
Portrait de Famille, Six Personnages
1962
22 1/4 x 30 in.
lithograph on wove paper
THOMAS WILLIAM JONES - Along Springhetti Road - watercolor - 9 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.
THOMAS WILLIAM JONES
Along Springhetti Road
c. 2014
9 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.
watercolor
THOMAS WILLIAM JONES - After Halloween - watercolor - 10 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.
THOMAS WILLIAM JONES
After Halloween
c. 1985
10 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.
watercolor
THOMAS WILLIAM JONES - Snohomish Silhouette - watercolor - 10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.
THOMAS WILLIAM JONES
Snohomish Silhouette
c. 2017
10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.
watercolor
ELLSWORTH KELLY - White Curve I - lithograph with pencil lines - 34 x 34 in.
ELLSWORTH KELLY
White Curve I
1973
34 x 34 in.
lithograph with pencil lines
ANTONY GORMLEY - Snowfall - monochrome - 27 3/8 x 39 1/5 in.
ANTONY GORMLEY
Snowfall
2002
27 3/8 x 39 1/5 in.
monochrome