Vestie Davis

"Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn, New York" Vestie Davis, Self-Taught Folk Art

1968

Of all the Haitian Voodoo ceremony paintings, few depict the ceremony at sea. This is a rare example. Vodou ceremonies at sea often depict rituals f...

This charming early 20th-century English School oil painting depicts the Cannon Brewery at North End, Fulham, owned by John Lovibond Sons Ltd. Founded in 1867, the brewery was...

Charming mid-century naive painting of small figures and chickens in a rural landscape by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed with the monogram "I. M. H." on lower lef...

Anonymous (English School) The Ballad Singers, ca. 1820 Oil on canvas Lively, theatrical, and brimming with charm, The Ballad Singers is a rare surviving example of early 19th-centu...

19th century English Folk Art Landscape with Cottage. This charming English Victorian 19th-century folk art landscape is a delightful portrayal of pastoral life, blending a quaint t...

Contemporary Atmospheric Black & White Monochrome Landscape Wilderness Painting by 20th Century Artist. Mark Thompson is a seasoned professional pa...

A perfect painting for lovers of Japan and those of primitive/naive outside art. It is a work by an internatoanlly noted extraordinary artist with an extraordinary life. Maurice LOIRAND (1922-2008) is born into a working class family in Brittany, near the Atlantic coast coast in France. He starts working as a skilled labourer in the shipyards aged 15. Aged 20, when the Nazis start to occupy the country, he joins the Resistance movement, where he meets and befriends thinkers, painters and poets. He is thus introduced to an artistic and intellectual universe far removed from the world of his origins. Loirand finds himself drawn to art, and soon dedicates all his free time to learn how to paint. Completely self taught, he soon begins to exhibit his pictures alongside high level artists. He moves to Paris in the 1950s, and - although still working as a technician - paints all night. He finally becomes a full time artist in 1968. International travel and a multitude of exhibitions follow. He exhibits in Brazil, Argentina, and with Jean Tiroche Gallery in New York, among others. His work is now shown alongside works by Leger, Matisse and Picasso. The Collector's Guild New York Ltd commissions Maurice Loirand for several works of lithographic art. Loirand discovers Japan in the early 1970s, and decides to stay for 18 years. He marries Kazué SHIMOTORI, a Japanese poet...

This atmospheric late 19th-century oil painting by Swedish artist Ernst Philip De Fine Licht (1855-1929) offers a quietly poetic glimpse of Helsingborg as it once was. Though a groce...

The Gift Of The Two Lines Born on March 21, 1906, in Moscow, she arrived as an emigrant to Paris at the age of 15, bearing in her young experience, the weight of the most transformi...

Streeter Blair Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois, 1949 Signed, titled, and dated lower left Oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches Primitive painter St...