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Item Ships From: Louisiana
It
s Only a Game
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: very old hand-carved bat, old handmade ball, hand-carved wood toy plane, Old wood handmade toolbox, one photo of young men gathered to play baseball ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Walking Past the Battle of New Orleans
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5, with 2 APs.
GINA PHILLIPS is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Inkjet
"Nonova" -- Abstract painting by Aimée Farnet Siegel on canvas, 2024
By Aimée Farnet Siegel
Located in New Orleans, LA
Driven by her love of materials and process, New Orleans artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color, line, and form through the building and manipulation of paper, paint, and canvas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Yakamein Fats
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5, with 2 APs.
GINA PHILLIPS is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Inkjet, Paper
The Goldfinch, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.348 )
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Goldfinch is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 11.2 x 8.25 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Louisiana - Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Dance Hall Fats
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5, with 2 APs.
GINA PHILLIPS is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Inkjet
"Closer to the Sun" -- Painting on Canvas by Bonnie Maygarden
By Bonnie Maygarden
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN says of her work…
My work is informed by and reacts to a culture defined by a digital experience, yet the work’s imagery is created entirely by hand, using only pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Donald
s Garden (Large Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "A tribute to Donald Sultan, who influenced me long ago (along with Sam Gummelt, Michael Whitehead and others) to incorporate industrial and 'homely' materials i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Charcoal, Tar, House Paint, Acrylic, Cardboard
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Pineapple with Bibles Hyperia
By Carmen Almon
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carmen Almon grew up in Barcelona and Washington DC and resides in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She uses copper sheeting, brass tubing, steel wire and enamel paint to create botani...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Louisiana - Art
Materials
Brass, Copper, Enamel, Steel
The Monkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.339)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Monkey is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 7.9 inche...
Category
20th Century Modern Louisiana - Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
3 (After Darkness)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1981, and her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1996. Pelias has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationwide, and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Artnet news, ArtDaily, Forbes, Pelican Bomb and New Orleans Art Review. Her work appears in the permanent collections at the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Newcomb Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
The Chess Game (antique drawing by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Despite the tears and repairs, this remains an absolutely wonderful drawing, by a famous Southern artist. Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Louisiana - Art
Materials
Graphite
Ode to Petrus Christus
Portrait of a Woman
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 27 inches - Edition 2 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
ABS, Archival Pigment
La Terrasse Devant La Mer By Jean Pierre Cassigneul
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
b.1935 French
La terrasse devant la mer
(The Terrace by the Sea)
Signed “Cassigneul” (lower left)
Oil on canvas laid on panel
This monumental, three-panele...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
"Paladin #2" - Framed Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes float-framed behind glass.)
Artist's Statement: "I was working on my "Gridish" paintings (you can find them in a search on the term "Gridish" on this site) when I became fascinated with certain materials I was working with - a new type of super-flat, super-black paint; powdered graphite; and iron oxide pigment. I had a small canvas ready to go, and shifted my attention to concentrating on just one of the rectangular forms I had been using in the Gridish series, and applying these materials in a way that pleased me. That sort of industrial sheen on the surface of the rectangle is really beautiful to me. This was a second I made, on paper. Quite obviously the mood given off by these works is greatly different from the colorful Gridish paintings that spawned them. My daughter, studying design at RISD, said she found the pic I...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Art
Materials
Lacquer, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite, Pigment
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Aquarius: Ganymede
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Kat Daddy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Demarcus McGaughey (b.1975) a Texas native and New York-based mixed media artist, passionately captures the beauty, strength, and vibrancy of people of color. Inspired by Barkley Hen...
Category
2010s Louisiana - Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Aggregate #23 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a maple floater frame, ready to hang.)
This is one of a series we have posted on 1stDibs. The first got more clicks and saves on its first day than any of the many hundreds of artworks we have ever posted. If you search on "G. Campbell Lyman" on 1stDibs you can see others in this series. Here's a recent message from a 1stDibs buyer of a painting in this series, a seasoned collector:
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Art
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, House Paint
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Spring Light
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
I intuitively paint each of my paintings based on my mood of the day or at that moment. I never know what I am going to create until I see the end result. Sometimes it is a colorful,...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
"Gridish #21" - Contemporary Mixed Media Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you can view other paintings in this series)
Artist’s Statement: “As I often do, I chose a very simple form to work with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Art
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Acrylic
The Treasures of Indo-China, 1922
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Treasures of Indo-China, created in 1922, is a gouache on paper, 15 x 11.25 inches and framed in a custom, closed-corner Art Deco frame. Signed rec...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Karen
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick on Arches paper
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
$23,000
"And All That" - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Apologies for the reflection towards the top of the painting; it's from the varnish)
Artist's Statement
"This series of relatively large, intensely colorful paintings was begun in...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Acrylic
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Estate No. 091013
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. His monotypes evolved from sharp, angular, black and whites to late abstract p...
Category
1960s Expressionist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Monotype
Still Life (artist in Met, Chicago Art Inst., Boston MFA, Whitney, etc.)
By Emanuel Glicenstein Romano
Located in New Orleans, LA
A burst of pure delight in primary colors, by a notable artist who's been exhibited at many of America's most important museums. It was painted during the mid-century resurgence of c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil
Libra: Astraea the Goddess of Justice
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
L’Heure du goûter! by Jules-Émile Saintin
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jules-Émile Saintin
1829-1894 French
L’Heure du goûter!
(Snack Time!)
Signed "Jules-Émile Saintin" (lower right)
Charcoal and white chalk on paper
A tender moment unfolds as a young girl leans over her bowl of soup, savoring her midday snack with focus and delight. Her spoon rests beside a slice of bread on the polished tabletop, while a cup, perhaps filled with tea or chocolate, and a second piece of bread complete the simple yet cozy scene. Nearby, her stuffed toy lies temporarily forgotten atop a shawl, hinting at the world of play just briefly paused.
The setting is intricately detailed. The dining room showcases a marble fireplace adorned with a clock, fine porcelain and delicate cups. Saintin’s composition captures the quiet grace of the moment as well as the interplay of light and texture, skillfully rendered using only charcoal and white chalk. His ability to infuse luminosity into a monochrome drawing speaks to his refined technique and observational sensitivity. This work resonates with Saintin’s charming studies of children during his American period, such as A Little Girl Dozing Over Her Drawing (possibly a portrait of Jennie Walters), now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
Born in 1829 in Lemé, Saintin began painting at age 11 and was admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris by 16. Trained under Martin Drölling and Édouard Picot, he became an accomplished portraitist and debuted at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1848, earning several medals.
In 1853, he moved to New York to work in a photography studio, soon dedicating himself fully to painting. He exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design—becoming a member in 1858—and gained a strong reputation for his portraits of American elites, as well as for his depictions of landscapes and Native American clothing...
Category
19th Century Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Fortress America
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: vintage wood fort with hand-painted graffiti, a vintage handmade wood carving of Uncle Sam & Trump, confederate flag scrap blindfold, metal chains, 4 vintage fl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Sunset
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carlton Scott Sturgill says of his work...
As a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, collage, and installation, my work takes many forms and incorporates a w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paint, Panel
Swimmer (Framed Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "I typically paint abstractly, but this is part of a recent series of paintings that is figurative and symbolic. They harken back to 80s neo-Expressionism - my f...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Art
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, House Paint
Further to Surface
By Aaron Collier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to present Aaron Collier: Of Rocks and Ruins.
The “Everything You Need to Know” website that intends to prepare visitors for the breezy summit and sce...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Ideal Home By Patrick Hughes
By Patrick Hughes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Patrick Hughes
b. 1939 British
Ideal Home
Oil on panel
Signed, titled and dated “Ideal Home / Patrick Hughes / 2023”
Patrick Hughes, a London artist, creates works that blend pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Choir" - Contemporary Abstract Multimedia Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
From the recent series combining tar with oil and acrylic, a painting using a limited palette to powerful effect. Artist's statement: "After a period of making big, colorful acrylic...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Art
Materials
Tar, Oil, Acrylic
$880 Sale Price
26% Off
Sandor Mohy, "Cubist Still Life"
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sandor Mohi (1902 - 2001) was a very widely-listed Hungarian painter, known primarily for his Cubist works such as this fine example. His brilliant u...
Category
20th Century Cubist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil
$1,120 Sale Price
37% Off
Country Road
Located in New Orleans, LA
A charming painting of a boy and girl walking down a country lane. Wonderful rendering of the trees and sky. The painting has two repairs (I have included a photo of the patches on t...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Embodied XVI
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Vector (left)
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: found aluminum cans, wire, Flashe paint
Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery).
Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Metal
On the Steps of the Salute, Venice by Félix-François Georges Ziem
By Félix Ziem
Located in New Orleans, LA
Félix-François Georges Ziem
1821-1911 French
On the Steps of the Salute, Venice
Signed “Ziem” (lower left)
Oil on panel
The city of Venice was a favorite subject for French artis...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil
Touching two places/ colour magenta red
By Barbara Kuebel
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5
BARBARA KUEBEL is a Daphne, AL-based artist who uses oil and pencil for her works on paper and on canvas. She was born and raised in Austria and earned two art degrees f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Under Repair
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: Three vintage wood handmade and jointed dancing racist stereotype figures painted as Uncle Sam, one handmade vintage painted wood stereotype cutout. Handmade painted wood American...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
The Chess Game By Georges Croegaert
By Georges Croegaert
Located in New Orleans, LA
Georges Croegaert
1848-1923 Belgian
The Chess Game
Signed "Georges Croegaert Paris" (lower right)
Oil on panel
This oil on panel by Belgian artist Georges Croegaert is a rich and...
Category
19th Century Academic Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mistinguett by Erté
By Erte - Romain de Tirtoff
Located in New Orleans, LA
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)
1892-1990 Russian-French
Mistinguett
Signed "Erté" (lower right)
Stamped "Composition originale" (en verso)
Gouache on paper
Erté designed this costume fo...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Hot Couple Looking for Sexy Third - mw4w - 2429 (San Francisco)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
paint chip sample mosaic on panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in Design ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled Piece
By Aaron Collier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to present Aaron Collier: Of Rocks and Ruins.
The “Everything You Need to Know” website that intends to prepare visitors for the breezy summit and sce...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Whole History
Located in New Orleans, LA
Born and raised in Atlanta, Virginia Candler studied art history and English at Vanderbilt University. After working in education, she began pursuing her life-long interest in making...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Acrylic
The Suns Within Us
Located in New Orleans, LA
Alexandra Chiou says of her work…
My latest series is about the transformative journey of healing after personal loss. I draw on nature and memory to create dimensional works on pap...
Category
2010s Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
13
By Adrienne Brown-David
Located in New Orleans, LA
These paintings are images taken directly from life with my daughters. They each represent a fragment of their childhood that is rapidly disappearing. I have chosen to create visual images that celebrate all that comes with the evolution from girlhood to womanhood.
ADRIENNE BROWN...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ViVa
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 3/3
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Metal
$136,000
Fence Clutter
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This 21x20 pastel captures the wild beauty of nature overtaking a forgotten fence, with vibrant purple flowers intertwined among deep green leaves. The rich textures and organic flow...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Hiding behind
By Barbara Kuebel
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5
BARBARA KUEBEL is a Daphne, AL-based artist who uses oil and pencil for her works on paper and on canvas. She was born and raised in Austria and earned two art degrees f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Ms Scott
s Boys
Located in New Orleans, LA
A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Brandon V. Lewis is the product of a single mothers love and dedication and the beneficiary of the hard work and strong convictions of his grandpa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Athirst III
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ina Kaur (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work responds to imbalances and injustices within social, cultural, and ecological environments. Her practi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
German Miniature of Young Lady in a Fancy Hat
Located in New Orleans, LA
This charming German miniature painting, created of oil on copper, depicts a young woman wearing a large and lavish hat. With dark, braided hair and blue eyes, the sitter's cheerful ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Louisiana - Art
Materials
Copper
Unexpected
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
I intuitively paint each of my paintings based on my mood of the day or at that moment. I never know what I am going to create until I see the end result. Sometimes it is a colorful,...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, India Ink, Acrylic
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a Beauty by William Clarke Wontner
By William Clarke Wontner
Located in New Orleans, LA
William Clarke Wontner
1857-1930 British
Portrait of a Beauty
Signed and dated "W. Wontner 1918" (lower left)
Oil on canvas
Classical beauty a...
Category
20th Century Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saint Cosmas And Saint Damian Attributed To Bonifacio Bembo
By Bonifacio Bembo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Attributed to Bonifacio Bembo
c.1444-1477 Italy
Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
Tempera on panel
These exceptionally rare early Renaissance panels of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian are an extraordinary new discovery. Based on the research of art historians Marco Tanzi and Andrea de Marchi, it is believed that these represent the missing panels from the famed polyptych formerly displayed on the altar of the Chapel of San Nicola da Tolentino in the Church of Sant’Agostino in Cremona, Italy. To find two matching early Renaissance panels outside of a museum or church, particularly in such remarkable condition, is an extraordinary rarity.
The central and left-sided panels of the original five-part polyptych are currently in the collection of the Museo Civico Ala Ponzone in Cremona. These panels have luckily remained intact, and respectively portray the Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels and Donor, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (the chapel’s namesake) and Saint George.
While the present panels have since been reduced, that they belong to the Cremonese altarpiece is confirmed by a number of stylistic elements. All five panels contain the same rich decorative arabesque pattern on their stamped gold background, while the figures’ knurled haloes are identical in both their fineness of line and use of perspective. The proportions of the figures coincide perfectly; Saints Cosmas and Damian would have originally also been depicted as full-length figures, fitting into the vertical, Gothic style of the altarpiece.
According to the Christian religion, Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian were 3rd century physicians born in Arabia. Little is known about their lives except that they were reputedly twin brothers and that they were martyred in Syria during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. It was believed that the saints were skilled in healing, and when their medicines failed, their faith and prayers could always perform miracles. Thus, the saints are often depicted with their medical equipment while wearing the traditional medieval doctor’s garb of crimson robes and distinctive round red hats.
The saints are similarly depicted in the present panels, though considering the manner in which they have been cut, their medical tools are not immediately evident. The saints were highly popular as patrons of wealthy families during the Gothic and Renaissance eras, particularly the Medici, and thus they occur frequently in art from the era. The twins, for instance, are found in the famed San Marco Altarpiece by Fra Angelico in the San Marco Museum (Florence), as well as in a set of Medici panels crafted by Filippo Lippi...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Louisiana - Art
Materials
Tempera, Panel
#402
By Tiffany Calvert
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist, TIFFANY CALVERT applies contemporary painting techniques to historical imagery. Her recent work uses the seventeenth-century Dutch floral still life as a springboard fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Inkjet
Untitled 11
By Jeffrey Pitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jeffrey Pitt’s intricate paintings evolved out of the artist’s desire to interpret culture based on artistic and ceremonial expression. With a B.A. in Anthropology, Pitt has a great ...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Board
Compass
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: found aluminum cans, wire, Flashe paint
Available in right and left orientations.
Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery).
Installations are made t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
$18,000
"Many happy returns" -- Sculpture by Jenny Day
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Enamel
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