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New to the Gallery First of three Rare and sublime Ad Reinhardt artist's proof...Continue reading

New to the Gallery First of three Rare and sublime Ad Reinhardt artist's proof...Continue reading

New to the Gallery - Moose by Charles Pachter MOOSE laser cut metal 12.75 x 6 x 3.5 in. (32.4 x 15.2 x 8.9 cm) ... signed and numbered (18/20) From Charles Pachter's website: Art critic Don Rouge-Humber has called Pachter the Cézanne of contemporary pop art in Canada. From his expressionist works of the 1960s to the cool icons of recent years, Pachter’s art covers an enormous range of content and style. For more on Charles Pachter, visit his website at http://cpachter.com/

New to the Gallery Anthony Frost (British, born 1951) Untitled (Christmas gift to friend) acrylic on paper... 3.25 inches by 3 inches This original Anthony Frost painting was a Christmas gift to a very close friend of the artist. Anthony Frost, the son of Sir Terry Frost, was born in St Ives, Cornwall. Between 1970 and 1973 he studied at the Cardiff College of Art acheiving a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Since then he has lectured on his subject at Falmouth School of Art, Canterbury School of Art, University of East London, Anglia University and served on the Devon County Advisory team at the Torquay Foundation Centre. He has been artist in residence at the Cyprus School of Art, Cyprus, Montmiral School of painting, Tarn, France and was Judge and Organiser at the Seven Celtic Artists Exhibition, Finnistere, France. Anthony has been working in Cornwall since he graduated from Cardiff College of Art and lives deep within the West Penwith rural landscapes of Rosemergy, near Morvah on the Atlantic coast. He is an active member of the well recognised artistic community of Penwith and exhibits regularly with the Newlyn Society of Artists. Frost's paintings are bright, full of colour and expression. They include repeated motifs (lines, triangles and dots) and a mix of materials (acrylic, hessian, sail cloth, string and other materials that come to hand). This hints at a complexity in the work, which at first sight appears quite straightforward. Although there is an element of planning in each work, there is also a random element which manifests itself in the creative process: Adding a piece of material or a tie that can change the painting's direction in unplanned ways. His work is in a number of corporate, public and private collections including Bank of America, Lloyds TSB, The Nuffield Trust, John Moores, Contemporary Art Society, Whitworth Gallery (Manchester) and Standard Life. In April 2009, Chichester University purchased "Ricochet Man" for the Bishop Otter Collection. In July 2009 Anthony Frost was awarded "Master of the University" in honour of services to the arts by the Open University, via Plymouth University (college of Art & Design).

Happy Canada Day... In celebration of Canadian art, Gallery on Granville is happy to present the following works by Canadian artists, including Steve Hutchings, Harold Town, Art Price, William Ronald, John Ward, Greg Murphy and others.

New to the Gallery - Moose by Charles Pachter MOOSE laser cut metal 12.75 x 6 x 3.5 in. (32.4 x 15.2 x 8.9 cm) ... signed and numbered (18/20) From Charles Pachter's website: Art critic Don Rouge-Humber has called Pachter the Cézanne of contemporary pop art in Canada. From his expressionist works of the 1960s to the cool icons of recent years, Pachter’s art covers an enormous range of content and style. For more on Charles Pachter, visit his website at http://cpachter.com/

At the Gallery - Philip Sutton Philip Sutton (British, born 1928) Parisian Girl, 1967 Woodcut, image 18 by 17 3/4 inches, paper 32 by 27 inches... Signed, numbered and dated in pencil - 21/25 Born in Poole in 1928, Philip Sutton left school at 14 and worked for three years in a drawing office, frequently waiting for the lunch break so that he could borrow a drawing board and draw. After national service in the RAF, a grant allowed him to study at the Slade from 1948 53. His contemporaries included Craigie Aitchison, Euan Uglow and Michael Andrews. Struck by the mixture of playfulness and seriousness he found in the work of Henri Matisse, an artist largely ignored at the time, Sutton established his own unique style. In 1976 Hugh Casson invited Sutton to become an RA and his reputation began to flourish.This led to commissions including designing a tapestry for Shell, a logo for 3i, the rose logo for the Labour party and wall tiles for the restaurant in a bank in Amsterdam.He designed stamps for the Post Office, a poster for the London Underground and even crockery for the Royal Academy restaurant. A poster for the RA Summer Exhibition led the film director Sam Wanamaker to ask Sutton to design a poster for his proposed reconstruction of the Globe Theatre. Sutton's unbounded energy has always taken him in numerous directions, including lithography. His best and most characteristic prints are the result of cutting patterns on wood. In his most intensive printmaking years around 1970, he travelled as far afiend as Fiji, carrying with him thin wooden boards that he would gouge out an image to be printed on his return home. His use of colour in these woodcuts demonstrates him to be a true colourist and the collection of work from the 1960s-1970s transcend time, looking as fresh today as they did 50 years ago.

New to the Gallery: Extremely rare hand-coloured artist's proof by Walasse Ting Untitled (Corrected Blues I, The Birth of Venus, Hollander Edition) Hand-coloured artist's proof Gouache, lithograph... Signed and notated in pencil This rare artist's proof by Walasse Ting is hand-coloured and notated. Using gouache, Ting brightened the blue area significantly in this print. Here is a copy of the same print, without the colour correction, in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Legion of Honor. https://art.famsf.org/walasse-ting/untitled-19672236 Walasse Ting (from Sotheby's) Born in Wuxi in Jiangsu Province in 1929, Walasse Ting was among a mere handful of 20th-century artists who moved to France and travelled to America, forging for himself a notable career in the international arena. He was a nomad, having lived variously in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris, New York and Holland. Apart from painting, he wrote poetry and prose; he also sang and danced, drawing from life the fullest pleasure and gusto. Ting was certainly a bon vivant: he cherished his friends and fine food, transforming his experiences into multifarious colours, wielding them as tokens of his love for life. Ting called himself a butterfly or flower thief, his art inspired by beauty and goodness, emotions and desires, and all the spices of life. He loved women, flowers and animals, and they served well as his artistic subjects. Ting never restricted himself in his choice of artistic medium: apart from standard canvas and paper of the West, beginning in the late 1970s he also used fine Chinese paper (xuanzhi) associated with traditional ink-and-brush paintings, applying large swathes of acrylic paint with wild abandon and boundless energy, which became his trademark. Ting was an expeditious painter, seizing every precious moment in life, throwing himself completely into depicting all the things that he loved. Ting’s output has enjoyed a large following. His works have been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, Guggenheim Museum, Musée Guimet and the Shanghai Art Museum (recently renamed the China Art Museum). Sotheby’s has gathered ten paintings by Walasse Ting from 1966 to 2000 encompassing these classic themes in oil paintings, watercolours and sketches, chronicling the artist’s multiple talents in different media.

New to the gallery: William Ronald (1926 - 1998) The Five Points - Downtown Barrie, 1995 oil on board, 12 inches by 14.5 inches... William Ronald was the founder of Painters Eleven, the pioneer movement of Modernism in Canada. Their first exhibition, in 1954, was also the first major commercial display of abstract art in Toronto. Ronald’s gift lies in his work's spontaneity, dynamism and energy and in his natural talent for handling paint. Contact the gallery for pricing.

A little piece by Lucian Freud.... Encore c1949 Print 20 x 24cm... Consists of a reproduction of an original sketch by Lucian Freud mounted on folded buff card stock and contained in buff envelope. MOMART Christmas Edition The entire MOMART Christmas Greeting series is now in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Tate and several other international museums. NFS See more

New to the Gallery - Larry Zox Dexter's Choice #1 The serigraph (screenprint) , "DEXTER'S CHOICE #I, done in pochoir, (25 stencils, 14 colors ) uses watercolor instead of inks, and is applied to heavy 300 lb. watercolor paper. Each print is unique because of how the paper receives the watercolor brush. In addition, each print has 11 lines added by hand with wax and water based crayons and oil sticks. Images Gallery published the edition & sells the serigraph (pochoir) for $2,...600 USD. Larry Zox, (1937-2006) was a prominent and highly regarded New York artist informed by Abstract Expressionism that included Motherwell, Frankenthaler, Pollock and Kline. His work is in the collection of many museums worldwide and he had a highly acclaimed retrospective at the Whitney Museum, New York, and the inaugural exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC It is in pristine condition, new, never framed or exposed to daylight. Measurements: image size: 34" x 46", on 100% Arches Museum rag paper, 40" x 60". Signed and numbered by the artist in edition of 30. Printed by Roni Henning at the NYIT Screen Print Workshop. The palette in earth tones, was pictured in Roni Henning's book, SCREEN PRINTING:WATER BASED TECHNIQUES, PAGE 13. See more

New to the Gallery: Jean-Paul Riopelle Original limited edition colour lithograph titled "Seoul" by internationally renowned Canadian abstract impressionist Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002). This lithograph is included in the Catalogue raisonné de Jean-Paul Riopelle: Tome 2, page 475 and Tome des estampes, page 345. It was commissioned for the 1988 international Olympic art portfolio but the edition was never published because the publisher was subject to bankruptcy proceedin...gs. The edition is composed of 300 impressions, numbered and signed by the artist in pencil, plus 30 artist's proofs and 30 HC impressions. It was produced on Arches paper by Galerie Lelong in Paris. The image size is 29 inches by 22 inches and the paper size is 35 inches by 23.5 inches. It has never been framed and is in mint condition. The artwork presents a lyrical meditation linking the Olympic rings, the Canadian maple leaf and an abstractly-represented dove in flight. It is composed of 9 colours: red, blue, green, brown, silver, copper, grey, white and black. Contact the Gallery for pricing.

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In celebration of Picasso at the National Gallery in Ottawa, how about a work by an artist who is just as influential, maybe even more so in his home of China. Zao Wou-ki is one of the most important Chinese artists of the last century. His paintings sell for hundreds of thousands and often millions of dollars...lyrical and descendant of the calligraphic art, Zao Wou-ki's best work is deft and completely free Zao Wou-ki (Chinese/French, 1921-2013) Untitled, 1961 lithograph, s...igned and numbered in pencil image size - approximately 15 inches by 21.5 inches Contact us for price.

New to the Gallery - Don Jean-Louis Don Jean-Louis, Canadian, born 1937 Four Organic Forms, 1962 Original pen and ink on paper... 53 by 69 cm signed in pen inside the image Original Isaacs Gallery label on verso (Interestingly, another smaller sized work also called Four Organic Forms, 43 x 35.1 cm, is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery in Ottawa. There's no image of that work online but there is reference to it.) An excerpt by Ihor Holubizky on Don Jean-Louis: Jean-Louis began exhibiting at The Isaacs Gallery in 1961. He formed friendships and affinities with the 'second generation' of Isaacs artists including Ted Bieler, Anton Van Dalen, Les Levine and Christiane Pflug. While not having the advantage of being identified with the 'baptism of The Scene', their work was a collective sign and indication of the richness and diversity of art practices (Van Dalen and Levine were to move to New York by the mid 1960s). Jean-Louis's drawings in the early 1960s focused on the particular which was 'underfoot'; an encrypted topography of seed pods, leaves and grass. He quickly received critical attention and exhibited in many of the major annual invitational exhibitions in Canada. In 1963 he was selected for The Contemporary Art of the Americas and Spain, an exhibition which travelled to public galleries in Madrid, Venice, Paris, Rome and Stockholm. Kathleen Fenwick, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada, took an immediate interest in the work of the then-emerging artist. She purchased drawings and included Jean-Louis in the prestigious Lugano International Exhibition in Switzerland in 1964. Another patron was Douglas Duncan, who was a supporter of emerging contemporary artists through his Picture Loan Gallery in Toronto. He acquired several of Jean-Louis drawings for his collection which were donated to various public collections in Canada when the Duncan estate was dispersed by the National Gallery. Here's the entire piece: http://ccca.concordia.ca/c/writing/h/holubizky/hol012t.html