Reynold Weidenaar

Demolition in the Plaza del Toro

1950

This is one print from a series of 5 that comprised the CINQ JARDINS ,CINQ SENS (five gardens, five senses), with texts and poems by Federico Garcia Lorca. The image relates to soun...

Signed, titled and numbered, from the edition of 180. The base and parapets of a bridge. Mathieux-Marie was born in Paris in 1947 and has been honored throughout his career with awa...

Peter Milton’s Hidden Cities: Continuum transforms the grandeur of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele into a layered meditation on architecture, memory, and the passage of time. The Gall...

A view of St. George living at peace with the animals around him. While Washburn's techniques bear favorable comparison with the old masters, there is a definite modern sense of wit ...

Demolitions pour le Percement de la Rue des Ecoles is a black and White etching realized by Maxime Lalanne in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 24x32. Very good impress...

The dimensions are for the image; there are large margins. This lithograph is signed in pencil. A native New Yorker, Ann Nooney (1900-1970) recorded the urban scene while on the Wo...

REYNOLD WEIDENAAR (1915 - 1985) TEN O'CLOCK IN TAXCO 1946 Etching and aquatint on paper Edition: An artist proof (#2) apart from an edition of unknown size Signed and titled in pencil. Image: 17" x 13"; Sheet: 19.75" x 15.75”. One of a pair of large format Mexican etchings...

Jörg Olberg (*1956 Dresden), Agony, 1987. etching, E.A. (edition of 30), 24 x 17 cm (image), 46 x 37 cm (sheet), each signed in pencil lower right "Olberg" and dated "IX [19]87", inscribed lower left "E.A. [Epreuve d'Artiste]". - minimal crease and dust stains in the broad margin - The architecture of decay - About the artwork Jörg Olberg draws here the sum of his artistic study of the Berlin ruins, which were still present in the cityscape well into the 80s. With his work "Agony" he creates an allegory of decay. Positioned in the landscape of ruins, a ruined house grows before the viewer, rising like the Tower of Babel into the sky, its roof and gable brightly illuminated by the sun. But already the roof shows mostly only the rafters, and as the gaze is drawn further down, the building visibly disintegrates, the beams protruding in all directions looking like splintered bones. Slowly but inexorably - in agony - the house will collapse in on itself and become nothing more than the burial mound of itself. At the same time, the small-scale stone composition and the plaster form a pattern-like ornamentation of decay. The tension in the picture is fed by the counter-movement of growth and collapse, which is heightened by the dramatic formation of clouds. The swirls of clouds are reminiscent of a world landscape...