Felice Boselli Art

"Guardians" Contemporary Oil Monkey Eyes Post-Cubist Abstract Whimsical Animal Hunt Slonem (American, b. 1951) "Guardians" 24 x 19 inches Oil on Canvas Signed, dated 1995, titled, and numbered "JEM0668" to verso. A Certificate of Authenticity from Hunt Slonem Studio attached. Unframed Provenance: From a New York City Collection. BIO Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicaragua. Slonem received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University of Louisiana and studied painting at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Since 1977, Slonem soloed in over one hundred fifty exhibitions at prestigious galleries. His work is exhibited globally, including in Madras, Quito, Venice, Gustavia, San Juan, Guatemala City, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, Oslo, Cologne, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Over fifty museums internationally include his work in their collections, among them The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. His work has been shown in thirty-one different museums. Corporate collections include American Telephone and Telegraph, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citibank, Continental Airlines, Goldman Sachs Co., IBM Corporation, Marriot Corporation, Paine Webber, Inc., Port Authority, and Readers Digest Inc. He won the 1991 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting, and McDowell Fellowships in 1986, 1984 and 1983. Since 1973, Slonem has lived and worked in New York City in his legendary loft with his seventy pet birds. The birds are his models. So enmeshed and unique are his aviary, studio, lifestyle and painting, that Slonem has been featured on television a dozen times and in numerous articles. In his 1993 essay, the late Henry Geldzahler describes, "The visual field of Hunt Slonem's paintings is a continuum accented by ovals of varying shape and colors that it turns out are birds." The birds evolved from Slonem's early paintings of saints as well as inspiration from the pioneers of bird imagery in painting, including Fabritsius, Heade and Audubon. Audubon shot one hundred birds...

‘A Tutto Galoppo’ by Alfredo Tominz (1854-1936). The painting – which depicts an Italian gentleman setting a brisk pace in a horsedrawn gig – is signed by the artist and presented ...

Canvas Size: 12 x 16 in. Frame Size: 20.5 x 24.5 in. Signed, lower left: "Don Warren" A serene, classic, and cheerful scene in the Texas Hill Country by Don Warren. The foreground i...

‘Passeggiata in Carrozza’ by Alfredo Tominz (1854-1936) The painting – which depicts an elegant couple in a gig with their Miniature Pinscher running ahead – is signed by the artist...

A fine pair of antique Italian oil on panel paintings Nature Morte of two pairs of gamebirds, in the Trompe-l'oeil style, by Michelangelo Meucci (1840-1909), signed & dated Firenze 1...

Very nice early Hunt Slonem of Doves with vintage frame selected by the artist

This Blue Dog work consists of a mostly pink with yellow background. There are 2 blue leafless trees and a single portrait sized face of a white and black dog (Tiffany). The dog ha...

19th century German romantic painting of a deer family in a snowy forest by Wilhelm Kühnert A majestic stag stands sentinel at the edge of a sun-drenched clearing, his gaze locked w...

The Italian Alps Italian School, early 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 21.5 x 18 inches canvas: 17 x 14 inches Provenance: private collection, Shropshire, England ...

An important oil on panel painting by the great Tuscan artist Ruggero Panerai. It depicts one of his favourite and most successful subjects, wild horses portrayed in a natural pose o...

Contemporary figurative oil on canvas painting by Polish artist Rafal Gadowski. Painting in pop art style depicting a watermelon. Colors are saturated and vibrant. Title of this pain...

The Italian Lakes Italian artist, early 20th century indistinctly signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 21.5 x 18 inches canvas: 17 x 14 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Co...